{"id":68657,"date":"2024-12-31T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T02:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/31\/arrest-warrant-south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-martial-law-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2024-12-31T11:06:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T02:06:10","slug":"south-korean-court-issues-arrest-warrant-for-president-yoon-suk-yeol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68657","title":{"rendered":"South Korean court issues arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The warrant was sought over Yoon\u2019s controversial and short-lived decision to impose martial law early in December<\/p>\n<p>A South Korean court has approved an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/30\/south-korea-seek-arrest-warrant-yoon-suk-yeol-ntwnfb\"> arrest warrant<\/a> for President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was impeached and suspended from power over his decision to impose martial law on 3 December, investigating authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) confirmed a Seoul court approved the warrant requested by investigators examining Yoon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/declaration-of-martial-law-awakens-ghosts-south-koreans-thought-were-laid-to-rest\">short-lived imposition of martial law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/31\/arrest-warrant-south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-martial-law-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The warrant was sought over Yoon\u2019s controversial and short-lived decision to impose martial law early in DecemberA South Korean court has approved an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was impeached and suspended from power over his decisi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68657","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68667,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68657\/revisions\/68667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}