The suspended president of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, has ordered his lawyers to investigate the agents who have been trying to execute an arrest warrant against him since last Friday as part of the investigation to which he is being subjected for his failed declaration of martial law on December 3.
Yun Gap Geun, the suspended president’s defense lawyer, announced this Sunday that tomorrow Monday he will file a complaint against the head of the Crime Investigation Office of Senior Public Officials (KOFIC), Oh Dong Woon, and against dozens of his subordinates for understand that last Friday they committed a “illegal entry” at the presidential residence when trying to execute for the first time, and failing in the effort, the order against Yoon.
The complaint also indicates that the anti-corruption agents violated military laws when confronting the security device of the suspended president, who decided to incorporate, after assuming power in May 2022, Army units to his security device, the same one that was involved in the Friday a run-in with the agents.
The arrest warrant, issued by a court after Yoon has refused to appear on up to three occasions to answer for the events of December 3, expires this coming Monday and right now no one knows for sure if KOFIC will try again. in the next few hours the execution of the same.
Sources from the official Yonhap news agency report that the anti-corruption office also does not rule out extending the validity of the arrest warrant or presenting a new, stronger order that stipulates the formal arrest of the suspended president, who refuses to collaborate because he claims that KOFIC has no legal authority to investigate what Yoon considers a matter of state: it declared martial law, he recalls, after accusing the country’s opposition of orchestrating a conspiracy with North Korea to attack the country’s integrity.
Blinken visits the country
In the midst of this crisis, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will begin a visit to the country in the next few hours as part of a farewell tour of his position that will also take him to Japan and France.
Blinken will meet on Monday with his counterpart Cho Tae Yul to talk about the “South Korea-US alliance, North Korean issues and regional and global challenges”, without mentioning the political crisis prevailing in one of the great American allies in the region.
The statement from the US State Department also does not directly mention the current political turmoil in Seoul, stating that Blinken will speak about “the ways in which our two nations can leverage our critical cooperation on the challenges facing the world based on our shared values.” “.
