{"id":68230,"date":"2024-12-08T11:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T02:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/08\/south-korea-arrests-ex-defence-minister-after-failed-martial-law-attempt-reports"},"modified":"2024-12-08T11:00:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T02:00:23","slug":"south-korea-arrests-ex-defence-minister-after-failed-martial-law-attempt-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68230","title":{"rendered":"South Korea arrests ex-defence minister after failed martial law attempt \u2013 reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Yong-hyun, who resigned earlier this week, is seen as central to President Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s brief martial law declaration<\/p>\n<p>South Korean prosecutors have arrested ex-defence minister Kim Yong-hyun over his alleged role in President Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/south-koreas-president-lifts-martial-law-in-the-face-of-united-opposition\">declaration of martial law<\/a> on Tuesday, local media has reported.<\/p>\n<p>Kim, who offered his resignation on Wednesday, was seen as a central figure in Tuesday\u2019s brief martial law declaration. A senior military official and filings to impeach Yoon by opposition members said Kim had made the proposal to Yoon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/08\/south-korea-arrests-ex-defence-minister-after-failed-martial-law-attempt-reports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Yong-hyun, who resigned earlier this week, is seen as central to President Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s brief martial law declarationSouth Korean prosecutors have arrested ex-defence minister Kim Yong-hyun over his alleged role in President Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s decl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68231,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68230\/revisions\/68231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}