{"id":68847,"date":"2025-01-11T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/11\/inside-south-korea-president-residence-fortress"},"modified":"2025-01-11T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T00:00:49","slug":"inside-the-fortress-where-south-koreas-impeached-president-awaits-his-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68847","title":{"rendered":"Inside the \u2018fortress\u2019 where South Korea\u2019s impeached president awaits his fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon Suk Yeol is barricaded inside a compound protected by rolls of barbed wire, a blockade of buses and hundreds of security force members<\/p>\n<p>Rolls of barbed wire encircle the perimeter of South Korea\u2019s presidential residence, where impeached leader Yoon Suk Yeol has transformed his hilltop home into an urban stronghold against arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The compound in the capital\u2019s exclusive Hannam-dong district, previously home to diplomatic receptions and banquets, has become the frontline of an unprecedented political crisis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/11\/inside-south-korea-president-residence-fortress\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon Suk Yeol is barricaded inside a compound protected by rolls of barbed wire, a blockade of buses and hundreds of security force membersRolls of barbed wire encircle the perimeter of South Korea\u2019s presidential residence, where impeached leader Yoon &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"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-68847","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\/68847","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\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68848,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68847\/revisions\/68848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}