Yoon Suk Yeol became the first South Korean leader to be held by criminal investigators, ending a long standoff after he imposed martial law.
Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol rallied on Friday near the presidential residence in Seoul to demonstrate against his possible arrest. The protest comes after a court extended the deadline for Yoon's arrest warrant for his controversial attempt to impose martial law in December 2024.
The Constitutional Court, an arbiter in a polarized nation, is about to consider whether Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment for declaring martial law was justified.
Eight days after Pyongyang launched a hypersonic ballistic missile, it fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles into the sea.