{"id":68734,"date":"2025-01-03T21:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/jan\/03\/south-korean-investigators-halted-after-impeached-president-defies-arrest-warrant-video"},"modified":"2025-01-03T21:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T12:00:54","slug":"south-korean-investigators-halted-as-impeached-president-defies-arrest-warrant-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68734","title":{"rendered":"South Korean investigators halted as impeached president defies arrest warrant \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s political crisis deepened 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. Hours after they entered the presidential compound in Seoul, anti-corruption officials said they were halted in their attempt to execute a warrant to detain Yoon over allegations that his martial law declaration in December amounted to an insurrection. The warrant for Yoon&#8217;s detention will expire on Monday<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><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 Yoon Suk Yeol<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/03\/why-yoon-suk-yeol-supporters-us-flags-south-korea-ntwnfb\">Why supporters of South Korea\u2019s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol are flying US flags<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\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\">South Korea crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/jan\/03\/south-korean-investigators-halted-after-impeached-president-defies-arrest-warrant-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s political crisis deepened 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. Hours after they entered the presidential compound&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[41,222,3218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","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\/68734","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68735,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68734\/revisions\/68735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}