{"id":68721,"date":"2025-01-03T20:14:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/03\/arrest-standoff-yoon-suk-yeol-south-korea"},"modified":"2025-01-03T20:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:14:25","slug":"arrest-standoff-shows-defiance-of-impeached-south-korean-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68721","title":{"rendered":"Arrest standoff shows defiance of impeached South Korean president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon Suk Yeoul has vowed to \u2018fight to the end\u2019 as he resists attempts to hold him accountable amid political crisis<\/p>\n<p>South Korean anti-corruption officials attempting to arrest the country\u2019s suspended president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/yoon-suk-yeol\">Yoon Suk Yeol<\/a>, must know by now what he meant by his repeated vows to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/12\/south-korea-yoon-suk-yeol-martial-law-insurrection-charges-impeachment\">fight to the end<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the month since his calamitous declaration of martial law, Yoon, along with most of his party, his legal team and, crucially, his security detail, have resisted at every turn attempts to hold him politically and legally accountable.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/03\/arrest-standoff-yoon-suk-yeol-south-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon Suk Yeoul has vowed to \u2018fight to the end\u2019 as he resists attempts to hold him accountable amid political crisisSouth Korean anti-corruption officials attempting to arrest the country\u2019s suspended president, Yoon Suk Yeol, must know by now what he me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"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-68721","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\/68721","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68722,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68721\/revisions\/68722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}