{"id":68706,"date":"2025-01-03T09:48:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T00:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jan\/02\/south-korea-police-on-way-to-arrest-president-yoon-suk-yeol-latest-updates"},"modified":"2025-01-03T20:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:09:15","slug":"investigators-trying-to-arrest-south-koreas-president-yoon-suk-yeol-reportedly-blocked-by-military-unit-latest-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68706","title":{"rendered":"Investigators suspend attempt to arrest South Korean president Yoon after standoff with security service \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-corruption officials say they faced human wall of 200 presidential personnel at his official residence<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/02\/police-en-route-arrest-yoon-suk-yeol-south-korea-president\">Investigators abandon attempt to arrest South Korean president<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Insurrection is one of the few criminal charges from which a South Korean president does not have immunity.<\/p>\n<p>Yoon\u2019s lawyers have said the arrest warrant was illegal and invalid because the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials did not have the authority under South Korean law to request a warrant.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jan\/02\/south-korea-police-on-way-to-arrest-president-yoon-suk-yeol-latest-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-corruption officials say they faced human wall of 200 presidential personnel at his official residenceInvestigators abandon attempt to arrest South Korean presidentInsurrection is one of the few criminal charges from which a South Korean president&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4558,"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":[41,222,42,3218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news","category-yoon-suk-yeol"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68706","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\/4558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68723,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68706\/revisions\/68723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}