South Korean authorities have granted a request to extend a warrant to detain the country’s suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol for questioning over his surprise declaration of martial law last month.

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol faces a new and potentially more robust attempt to arrest him for insurrection after a top investigator vowed to do whatever it takes to break a security blockade and take in the impeached leader.

South Korean investigators on Friday were attempting to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law decree last month, as hundreds of his supporters gathered at his residence in Seoul,

Anti-corruption agency expresses ‘serious regret about attitude of suspect who did not respond to a process by law’

South Korea's anti-corruption agency is facing challenges in detaining impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on rebellion charges. A tense standoff with the presidential security service and legal complexities have hindered efforts to arrest Yoon following allegations of his brief martial law declaration.

A South Korean court on Tuesday approved an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol, the embattled leader who plunged the country into political chaos by his shock decision to declare martial law nearly a month ago.

A South Korean court has issued an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol. Recall that President Yoon was recently impeached and suspended from power over his decision to impose martial law on 3 December.

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, in a message to conservative supporters, vowed to 'fight to the end' against 'anti-state forces.'

Yoon Kab-keun, one of the lawyers representing South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, said on Thursday that Yoon was staying in his official residence. The lawyer made the comment in a briefing to reporters following recent speculation over the suspended president's whereabouts.