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The impeached South Korean leader, Yoon Suk Yeol, has become South Korea’s first president to be arrested and detained in the nation’s history.
He was arrested on Wednesday over his failed martial law bid after personnel from the country’s Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) scaled through barricades and barbed wires to get him into custody.
His arrest halts a weeks-long standoff between the investigators and the presidential security team.
Officials of the CIO had made an initial attempt to arrest Mr Yoon on Friday, 3 January, but faced a six-hour standoff with his security detail and failed to apprehend him…
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