Yoon Suk Yeol has become South Korea’s first incumbent president to be arrested after he was charged with insurrection for declaring martial law last month and thrusting the country into ...

The legislation will require immigration officers to detain immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally when they're accused of ...

Yoon to remain detained, stand trial on charge of insurrection South Korean prosecutors indicted President Yoon Suk Yeol on ...

It would also make Yoon, a former prosecutor general, the first sitting South Korean president both to be detained and arrested. Yoon has called the investigation “invalid” and has refused to ...

He is, however, still technically the president as a constitutional court has to decide whether his impeachment is valid. On December 31, 2024, the South Korean court issued the arrest warrant for ...

SEOUL — South Korean authorities arrested President Yoon Suk Yeol early Sunday, days after he was detained by investigators in relation to his botched attempt to impose martial law last month.

He avoided a first arrest attempt on 3 Jan by holing up in his residence, behind his security service. Yoon's replacement as acting president, Han Duck-soo, was also impeached by parliament after ...

Mr Yoon, 64, was arrested on 15 January and taken to the Corruption Investigation Office for questioning. The president was impeached by the National Assembly over his shortlived martial law ...