{"id":7046,"date":"2024-12-31T02:01:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T02:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/south-korean-court-approves-arrest-warrant-for-president-yoon-suk-yeol\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T02:01:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T02:01:09","slug":"south-korean-court-approves-arrest-warrant-for-president-yoon-suk-yeol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/south-korean-court-approves-arrest-warrant-for-president-yoon-suk-yeol\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean court approves arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            A South Korean court on Tuesday approved an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was stripped of his presidential powers just weeks ago over his short-lived martial law decree that threw the country into political chaos.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            This is the first time a sitting South Korean president has faced an arrest warrant granted by a court.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            South Korea\u2019s parliament voted to impeach Yoon on December 14 in an extraordinary rebuke that came about after his own ruling party turned on him following his refusal to resign.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            South Korea\u2019s anti-corruption agency said the Seoul Western District Court granted the warrant for Yoon, who is facing a probe on charges of abuse of authority and orchestrating a rebellion after he announced martial law on December 3.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The arrest warrant was issued after Yoon, a former prosecutor, had refused to answer three summonses by investigators in recent weeks asking for his cooperation, according to the Corruption Investigation Office (CIO).    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The CIO said an arrest warrant must usually be executed within seven days but can be extended.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            <em>This is a developing story. <\/em>    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Korean court on Tuesday approved an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was stripped of his presidential powers just weeks ago over his short-lived martial law decree that threw the country into political chaos. This is the first time a sitting South Korean president has faced an arrest warrant granted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}