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Breaking -- Zero Hour in Seoul, Yoon's Arrest Imminent [1]
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Date: 2025-01-02
The police are on the move and impeached president Yoon Suk-yeol’s arrest could happen at any moment. From Reuters:
Yoon is under criminal investigation for his short-lived martial law attempt on Dec. 3. An arrest would be unprecedented for an incumbent South Korean president.
Yonhap reported that officials from the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO), which is leading a joint team of investigators that include the police and prosecutors, had left their headquarters to execute the warrant.
Broadcaster YTN reported that about 2,800 police had been mobilised in preparation for executing the warrant.
It was unclear exactly how police would make the arrest and whether the presidential security service, which has blocked access by investigators with a search warrant to Yoon's office and official residence, would try to stop it.
About 100 protesters were gathered in the pre-dawn hours near his residence, amid local media reports that investigating authorities would soon try to execute an arrest warrant that was approved on Tuesday after Yoon refused summons to appear.
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