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Published on: 06/01/2025 | 08:45:01
AI Summary:
A standoff between rival government forces outside the presidential compound in South Korea has been a startling development. For weeks, impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has remained in his compound and refused to respond to detention and search warrants. The spectacle followed Yoon’s astonishing decision last month to impose martial law. Yoon’s lawyers on Monday filed complaints against the anti-corruption agency’s chief prosecutor, Oh Dong-woon. Yoon’s declaration of martial law unleashed a string of political aftershocks. About 150 investigators tried to get Yoon on Friday in a tense standoff with the presidential security service that lasted more than five hours. After getting around a military unit guarding the residence’s grounds, the agency’s investigators and police were able to approach within 200 meters (220 yards) of Yoon’s residential building but were stopped by a barricade of around 10 vehicles. Yoon’s lawyers said they plan to file complaints against about 150 anti-corruption and police investigators South Korea was run by a string of dictators until democracy came in the late 1980s. Some of the passion evident in South Korea politics can be seen in the turmoil faced by recent presidents, many of whom have been jailed for corruption after leaving office. A particularly sensational moment came in 2016 when millions protested against conservative President Park Geun-hye.
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