SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hundreds of law enforcement officials in South Korea entered the residential compound of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday morning in the capital Seoul. It was their second attempt to detain him over his imposition of martial law last month.
More than a thousand anti-corruption investigators and police officers could be deployed in the operation to apprehend Yoon, who has been holed up in the Hannam-dong residence for weeks.
Yoon had not been apprehended as of Wednesday morning, as investigators from the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials were negotiating with the president’s attorneys. Yoon’s lawyers were trying to persuade investigators not to execute the
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