Top aide of impeached South Korean president pleads for investigators to halt detention efforts

The top aide of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has pleaded with law enforcement to abandon their efforts to detain him over last month’s martial law imposition, as authorities prepared a second attempt to take him into custody. The presidential chief of staff said Yoon could be questioned but that the country’s anti-corruption agency and police were trying to drag him out like he was a member of a “South American drug cartel.” But a lawyer for the president said there were no plans for Yoon to be made available for questioning. The presidential security service prevented the investigators from detaining Yoon on Jan. 3 and they are now planning for more forceful measures.