Yoon’s detention, after a tense standoff outside the presidential residence, marks the latest chapter in a bewildering series of events since his martial law decree.
t’s the end of a standoff that had veered from the bizarre to the downright embarrassing. Early on Wednesday morning, hundreds of investigators finally entered the fortified compound in Seoul where South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol had been holed up since his mid-December impeachment over an earlier
Yoon’s detention marks the latest chapter in a bewildering series of events following his martial law decree on Dec. 3—when he became the first South Korean leader to place his country under military rule since democratization in the late 1980s. The opposition-led National Assembly quickly voted down that move, prompting the embattled President to send armed troops to attempt to seize the legislature and detain his political adversaries.
Arch-nemesis North Korea has been dispatching troops to help Vladimir Putin in Ukraine and honing its ballistic missile capability, while China is drastically building up its military might. At the same time, incoming U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly questioned the value of the nation’s East Asian alliances.
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