Tag: Martial law
Investigators, With Reinforcements, Try Again to Detain South Korean Leader
Criminal investigators armed with a court-issued warrant prepared a second, much-anticipated operation early Wednesday to detain President Yoon Suk Yeol for questioning in...
South Korean Leader Shuns Trial as He Tries to Hold Off...
The Constitutional Court of South Korea began formal deliberations on Tuesday to decide whether to unseat President Yoon Suk Yeol. The impeached leader...
With South Korea in Crisis, Eight Justices Will Decide President’s Fate
For six weeks, South Korea has lurched through its worst political crisis in decades, throwing the resilience of the country’s democracy into question....
How Bodyguards Are Keeping South Korea’s President Yoon From Detention
South Korea’s Presidential Security Service, an agency assigned to protect the president, prides itself on being the “last bastion for a safe and...
In Seoul, Blinken Affirms Alliance Amid Challenges to Democracies
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and the foreign minister of South Korea, Cho Tae-yul, both acknowledged the challenges to democracy in their...
South Korean Unrest Conspiracy Theories Are Spread by Social Media
Every day for the past week, Kim Kwon-seop, 72, has joined thousands of others gathered near the home of South Korea’s impeached president,...
Impeached President Faces Down Detention Bid, Stoking South Korea’s Crisis
When around 100 criminal investigators and police officers entered a hilly compound in central Seoul on Friday morning, they tried to achieve something...
