The Challenge of Arresting the Impeached President of South Korea

Yonhap News Agency reports that South Korean police met today with Seoul and neighboring province police commanders to discuss how to apprehend "Yoon Seok-yeol," the country's impeached president.

Last Friday was the first failed attempt to arrest South Korea's impeached president. Police were unable to enter Yoon's home because of his bodyguards.

In a circular sent to all police departments in the capital on Thursday, South Korea's Corruption Investigation Bureau requested that 1,000 officers be assigned to carry out the arrest warrant for Yoon.

This comes as Yonhap reported increased security measures in front of the residence of the country's impeached president, and quoted Park Chung-joon, the resigned head of the South Korean Presidential Security Unit, as expressing concern about the clash between the agency's officers and the police.

The resigned head of the South Korean Presidential Security Unit, while announcing that the issue of the impeached president's arrest should not lead to clashes between the police and the bodyguards, said: "The police investigation should be conducted in a way that preserves the honor of the sitting president."

He resigned from his post today after being questioned by the police, and the resignation was accepted by the acting president.

The second arrest warrant for South Korean impeached President Yoon Seok-yeol, who imposed a wave of political and economic instability on the country by imposing martial law, was issued last Monday.

In addition to the first arrest warrant, Yoon had ignored three summonses issued by the Corruption Eradication Investigation Bureau on charges of abuse of power to impose martial law on December 13.