South Korea’s presidential security chief said on Friday there must be no bloodshed if another arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol is executed by investigators over his failed martial law bid.
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Yoon has refused questioning and last week resisted arrest in a tense stand-off between his guards and investigators after his short-lived power grab plunged South Korea into its worst political crisis in decades.
“I understand many citizens are concerned about the current situation where government agencies are in conflict and confrontation,” presidential security service chief Park Chong-jun told reporters on Friday before he was questioned at the Korean National Police Agency.
“I believe that under no circumstances should there be physical clashes or bloodshed.”
Investigators seeking to question Yoon on insurrection charges linked to his ill-fated declaration of martial law secured a new arrest warrant this week after an initial seven-day order expired on Monday.
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Several hundred of his supporters have rushed to the presidential residence, braving sub-zero temperatures to defend him.