The top police officer for the capital Seoul has also been detained.
South Korea’s national police chief and top police officer for the capital Seoul have been detained for their roles in enforcing president Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived martial law decree.The development comes hours before the main liberal opposition Democratic Party submits a new motion to impeach Mr Yoon on the martial law introduction.
They say a president is by law allowed to declare martial law only during “wartime, war-like situations or other comparable national emergency states” and South Korea was not in such a situation. In his martial law announcement, the conservative Mr Yoon stressed a need to rebuild the country by eliminating “shameless North Korea followers and anti-state forces”, a reference to his liberal rivals who control parliament.
Mr Yoon avoided impeachment on Saturday after most governing party lawmakers boycotted a floor vote in the National Assembly.
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