Former South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was arrested after a dramatic and drawn-out showdown with law enforcement officials.
Police and corruption officers scaled the walls of his residential compound, where he had been holed up for nearly two weeks, evading arrest, after his short-lived declaration of martial law on December 3. The officers broke through the barbed wire and barricades his security personnel had erected.
Hundreds of officers pushed past Yoon’s small army of personal security to take the leader into custody after a court issued a warrant for his detention.
Yoon faces the charge of insurrection, the only one that South Korean presidents are not immune from. His arrest marks the first one of a sitting South Korean president.
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