Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol once again expressed his inability to cooperate with the legal process. This time he refused to attend the first official hearing in the country's constitutional court citing personal security concerns. British news agency Reuters reported this.
Yoon's lawyer, Yoon Kab-keun, was quoted by the country's Yonhap News as saying that officials from the corruption investigation agency and police officers came to take Yoon Suk-yeol into custody illegally with an unreasonable arrest warrant. As a result, there have been concerns about the President's personal security. He will attend the hearing only if security is assured.
The first hearing of the Constitutional Court was scheduled to take place next Tuesday (January 14). The court will decide on the permanent removal or reinstatement of the impeached Yun.
Meanwhile, South Korea's Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) is again preparing to take Yoon into custody in a separate case. The agency is investigating whether Yun committed treason by imposing martial law on December 3. The CIO was forced to stop in the face of obstruction by the Presidential Guards when he went to his state residence to arrest the impeached President on January 3.
Even though the martial law imposed in the country could not be maintained for more than a few hours, Yun's suffering still does not leave him behind. One of his decisions is sending South Korea through its biggest political turmoil in decades.
