The suspended president of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeolhas ordered his lawyers to investigate the agents who have been trying to execute an arrest warrant since last Friday against him within 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 an “illegal entry” into the presidential residence when trying to execute for the first time, and failing in the effort, the order against Yoon.
The complaint also states that anti-corruption agents violated military laws when confronting the suspended president’s security detailwho decided to incorporate, after assuming power in May 2022, Army units into his security device, the same one that was involved in a clash with the agents on Friday.
The arrest warrant, issued by a court after Yoon had refused to appear on up to three occasions to answer for the events of December 3, It expires this coming Monday and right now no one knows for sure if KOFIC will try to execute it again in the next few hours.
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.
The blink will meet with his counterpart Cho Tae Yu on Mondayl 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 US 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.” “.
