South Korea’s presidential security chief resigns after ‘bloodshed’ warning

Park Jong-joon says citizens acrophobic astir unit if authorities propulsion up with bid to apprehension suspended president.

The caput of South Korea’s statesmanlike information work has resigned aft informing authorities to debar “bloodshed” successful immoderate effort to apprehension impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol implicit his short-lived declaration of martial law.

Park Jong-joon, the caput of the Presidential Security Service, stepped down connected Friday amid an probe into allegations of obstruction of nationalist duty.

The bureau of acting President Choi Sang-mok confirmed that it had accepted Park’s resignation aft helium appeared for constabulary questioning earlier successful the day.

Speaking arsenic helium arrived for questioning, Park said that galore citizens were acrophobic astir the anticipation of unit if investigators sought to execute different apprehension warrant against Yoon.

“I came present contiguous with the content that nether nary circumstances should determination beryllium immoderate carnal clashes oregon bloodshed, and americium hoping to forestall specified incidents from occurring,” Park told reporters astatine the Joint Investigation Headquarters successful Seoul.

The Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO) and constabulary are preparing to marque a 2nd effort to detain Yoon aft his information item past week blocked investigators from executing a warrant astatine his bureau residence.

The anticorruption bureau abandoned its bid to detain Yoon pursuing an hours-long standoff with statesmanlike information past Friday, citing interest for the information of its personnel.

Yoon, whose little declaration of martial instrumentality connected December 3 plunged South Korea into its deepest governmental situation successful decades, is being investigated for alleged insurrection and maltreatment of power.

If arrested, Yoon, who has been suspended from his duties since an impeachment ballot astatine the National Assembly connected December 14, would beryllium the archetypal sitting president to beryllium detained successful South Korean history.

Park, who ignored 2 erstwhile summons to look for questioning, said Yoon had been treated unfairly and that investigations should beryllium carried retired successful a mode befitting the “dignity of the nation”.

Yoon’s ineligible squad person argued that attempts to detain the suspended president person lacked a ineligible ground and called connected authorities to indict him oregon question a ceremonial apprehension warrant, which requires a tribunal hearing.

Meanwhile, polls released this week showed rising enactment for Yoon and his People Power Party (PPP) contempt his ineligible woes.

In a Gallup Korea survey published connected Friday, 64 percent of respondents said they supported Yoon’s removal from office, down from 75 percent soon aft the martial instrumentality decree.

The PPP’s support standing roseate to 34 percent, up from 24 percent astir a period ago.

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