{"id":68868,"date":"2025-01-12T13:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T04:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/12\/yoon-suk-yeol-to-miss-start-of-south-korea-impeachment-trial-on-safety-grounds"},"modified":"2025-01-12T13:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T04:30:16","slug":"yoon-suk-yeol-to-miss-start-of-south-korea-impeachment-trial-on-safety-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68868","title":{"rendered":"Yoon Suk Yeol to miss start of South Korea impeachment trial on safety grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer for suspended president says concerns about \u2018potential incidents\u2019 have arisen following thwarted attempt to arrest him at his residence<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/11\/inside-south-korea-president-residence-fortress\">Inside the \u2018fortress\u2019 where South Korea\u2019s impeached president awaits his fate<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s suspended president, Yoon Suk Yeol, will not attend the first hearing of his impeachment trial next week because of safety concerns, his lawyer has said.<\/p>\n<p>Yoon has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/11\/inside-south-korea-president-residence-fortress\">holed up in the presidential residence<\/a> and protected by an elite guard force since being suspended and impeached last month following a short-lived declaration of martial law that plunged the country into political chaos.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/12\/yoon-suk-yeol-to-miss-start-of-south-korea-impeachment-trial-on-safety-grounds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer for suspended president says concerns about \u2018potential incidents\u2019 have arisen following thwarted attempt to arrest him at his residenceInside the \u2018fortress\u2019 where South Korea\u2019s impeached president awaits his fateSouth Korea\u2019s suspended president&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-68868","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\/68868","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68869,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68868\/revisions\/68869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}