South Korean law enforcement officials on Wednesday were in a standoff with presidential security forces at impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol’s official residence in the capital Seoul. The impasse came during the police's second attempt to detain Yoon over his imposition of martial law last month.
Possibly more than a thousand anti-corruption investigators and police officers could be deployed in a potentially multiday operation to apprehend Yoon, who has been holed up in the Hannam-dong residence for weeks. Yoon has justified his martial law decree as a legitimate act of governance against an “anti-state” opposition bogging down his agenda with its legislative majority and vowed to “fight to the end” against efforts to oust him.
