YTN reports that South Korean authorities are near Yun's residence to execute an arrest warrant for the impeached president.
Recent profiles of Yoon Seok-yeol have raised concerns in Washington, where his decision to declare martial law late on Dec. 3 plunged Asia's fourth-largest economy into its worst political crisis in decades.
Yun was forced to lift the order just six hours later after lawmakers stormed parliament and rejected the bill.
Yonhap News reported that officials from the High-level Corruption Investigation Headquarters, which is leading a joint investigation team that includes police and prosecutors, left the headquarters to execute the warrant against Yoon.
Broadcaster YTN reported that about 2,800 police were called in to prepare to execute the warrant.
How the police will make the arrest and whether the presidential security service, which has blocked investigators with search warrants from entering Yun's office and official residence, will try to prevent the arrest are unclear. It's unclear exactly.
Local media reported that investigative authorities would soon try to execute an arrest warrant for Mr. Yoon after he refused a request to appear.Although the arrest warrant was approved on Tuesday, about 100 A crowd of protesters gathered.
According to Reuters, about 10 demonstrators tried to block a group of police officers at the entrance to the pedestrian bridge.
Earlier this week, Yun rallied his supporters with a letter saying he would “fight to the end.”
“I'm watching your hard work live on YouTube,” Yun wrote in a letter late Wednesday to hundreds of supporters who had gathered near the prime minister's office to protest the investigation into him. .
“I will fight to the end to protect this country together with all of you,” Yoon said in the letter, a photo of which was sent to the media by Yoon's lawyer Seok Dong-hyun.
According to Yonhap News, South Korean authorities are proceeding with the execution of an arrest warrant for President Yun Seok-yeol.
A court in Seoul had issued an arrest warrant for Yun on December 31 for attempting to impose martial law on December 3.
The warrant was issued after Yoon, who is being investigated on charges of abuse of power and inciting rebellion, ignored three summonses to appear for questioning in the past two weeks.
His lawyers called the warrant “illegal and invalid” and said they would challenge it in court.
Yoon becomes the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested.
