Police suspend efforts to arrest impeached South Korean president
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
South Korean police called off an attempt to arrest the suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol, following a long standoff with his security team. Anti-corruption officers have appealed to the acting president to intervene.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.5 | I'm Nick Miles and at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 3rd of January, these are our main stories. |
| 0:10.3 | Anti-corruption investigators in South Korea have suspended an attempt to arrest the impeached President Yun Sukyo. |
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| 1:02.3 | The political standoff in South Korea shows no sign of being resolved. |
| 1:07.4 | Despite his impeachment and suspension from office after imposing martial law last month, |
| 1:12.9 | President Yun Sukhul has fervent supporters still. |
| 1:16.3 | In fact, they're so impassioned that thousands of them have been surrounding Mr Yun's house in Central Seoul, |
| 1:22.2 | trying to prevent police from arresting him as part of corruption investigations. |
| 1:27.1 | The President's security officers refused to let police through, so once again they backed down. |
| 1:32.5 | Gene McKenzie reports now on another day of deadlock. |
| 1:35.7 | The standoff started before dawn. |
| 1:38.6 | Police blocked the roads around the President's home, pushing back his incense supporters. |
| 1:47.8 | As the sun rose, the first officers ran up to his house to make the arrest, but they were unable to get in, blocked by the president's |
| 1:54.6 | security team who refused to open the door. By lunchtime, the officers had given up, an arrest was impossible, |
| 2:02.5 | they said. Mr. Youen may have been suspended, stripped of his power, but still his security |
| 2:08.9 | is protecting him. It's been exactly a month since President Yun plunged his country into |
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