South Korea’s suspended president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been arrested amid a huge police presence outside his official residence in the capital, Seoul. Officials from the Corruption Investigation Office had for weeks been seeking his arrest over insurrection allegations connected to his short-lived declaration of martial law in early December.
After their first attempt to execute an arrest warrant was abandoned in early January amid a standoff with Yoon’s security detail, investigators returned to his residence on Wednesday backed by an estimated 3,000 police officers.
