Due to safety concerns following a confrontation with his security team, South Korean investigators cancelled their effort to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol at his home on Friday over a failed martial law attempt.
The warrant would make Yoon, who lawmakers have already suspended from office, the first sitting president in South Korean history to be arrested.
The president might be imprisoned or, in the worst case scenario, executed for his Dec. 3 fumbled announcement that rocked the thriving East Asian democracy and momentarily threw it back to the gloomy days of military control.
In an investigation of Yoon’s martial law proclamation, the Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) said in a statement that the execution of the arrest warrant today was deemed practically impossible because of the ongoing standoff.
When Yoon’s presidential security agency and its military unit confronted the arrest attempt, the statement stated, “Concern for the safety of personnel on-site led to the decision to halt” the attempt.
Approximately 200 soldiers and security guards linked arms to block the path of about 20 investigators and 80 police officers when they entered the presidential area, a CIO official told a briefing.
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