{"id":68712,"date":"2025-01-03T06:58:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T21:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/02\/police-en-route-arrest-yoon-suk-yeol-south-korea-president"},"modified":"2025-01-03T17:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T08:32:19","slug":"investigators-arrive-at-official-residence-of-south-korean-president-yoon-suk-yeol-to-arrest-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68712","title":{"rendered":"Investigators abandon attempt to arrest South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials entered the presidential compound to find themselves blocked by troops under the control of the presidential security service<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jan\/02\/south-korea-police-on-way-to-arrest-president-yoon-suk-yeol-latest-updates\">South Korea investigators barred from entering Yoon residence \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s political crisis took a dramatic turn on Friday when investigators were forced to abandon an attempt to arrest the impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, after a tense standoff with his security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after they entered the presidential compound in Seoul, anti-corruption officials said they were halting their attempt to execute a warrant to detain Yoon over allegations that his martial law declaration in December amounted to an insurrection.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/02\/police-en-route-arrest-yoon-suk-yeol-south-korea-president\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials entered the presidential compound to find themselves blocked by troops under the control of the presidential security serviceSouth Korea investigators barred from entering Yoon residence \u2013 latest updatesSouth Korea\u2019s political crisis took a d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4559,"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-68712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news","category-yoon-suk-yeol"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68712","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\/4559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68738,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68712\/revisions\/68738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}