South Korea has been experiencing a political turmoil for the past many weeks that increased following the then-President of the country, Yoon Suk Yeol imposed martial law, only to recall it after mass opposition and protests; what followed the Martial Law chaos was President Yoon’s impeachment. Impeached President Yoon has been arrested by the law enforcement officials, following they entered his residential compound, in their second attempt to arrest him.
South Korea’s anti-corruption agency says impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested hours after the hundreds of the agency’s investigators and police officers arrived at his presidential compound to apprehend him. A series of black SUVs, some equipped with sirens, were seen leaving the presidential compound with police escorts. Seemingly hundreds of law enforcement officials in South Korea entered the residential compound of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol early on Wednesday in the capital Seoul. It was their second attempt to detain him over his imposition of martial law last month.
Following an hours-long standoff at the compound’s gate, anti-corruption investigators and police officers were seen moving up the hilly compound. Police officers were earlier seen using ladders to climb over rows of buses placed by the presidential security service near the compound’s entrance. Law enforcement officials may face more obstacles as they approach Yoon’s residential building.
Despite a court warrant for Yoon’s detention, the presidential security service has insisted it’s obligated to protect the impeached president and has fortified the compound with barbed wire and rows of buses blocking paths. As tensions escalated, South Korea’s acting leader, Deputy Prime Minister Choi Sang-mok, issued a statement urging law enforcement and the presidential security service to ensure there are no “physical clashes”.
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