The South Korean president, Yoon Suk-yeol, did not attend an interrogation this Sunday with the Prosecutor’s Office, which is investigating him for decreeing martial law on December 3. The team leading the investigation announced today that had sent a summons to Yoon on December 11 asking him to appear at the headquarters of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office to be interrogated there, but the president has not appeared.
The prosecutors, who confirmed that the Presidential Office had acknowledged receipt of the call, plan to send you a second summons tomorrow, Monday, to the president, who yesterday Saturday was dismissed by Parliament due to his decision to decree a state of emergency.
Yoon, who has been banned from leaving the country, as well as other members of his Cabinet – such as the former defense minister, Kim Yong-hyun,que remains in preventive detention– and senior military and police officials are being investigated for alleged crimes of mutiny, abuse of power or insurrection.
The latter is the most serious of them and It may even lead to Yoon’s arrestsince not even presidential immunity prevails in cases of insurrection, a crime that, for those considered leaders of the uprising, results in life imprisonment or the death penalty (on which there has been a moratorium in South Korea since 1997 ).
Yoon is now waiting for what he decides. Constitutional Court, which has a maximum of six months to determine whether or not the president violated Magna Carta by implementing martial law and whether, therefore, his dismissal should be ratified or he should be restored to office.
