South Korea's presidential guards and military troops prevent the arrest of impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday January 3, in a tense six-hour stand-off at his compound in Seoul.
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00:00South Korea's presidential guards and military troops prevent the arrest of impeached President Yoon Suk-yol on Friday, January 3, in a tense six-hour standoff at his compound in Seoul.
00:11The Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials, or CIO, says that executing the arrest warrant was impossible due to the standoff.
00:19CIO officials attempt to execute the warrant, but were met with resistance from hundreds of Yoon supporters.
00:25Some of them chant, President Yoon Suk-yol will be protected by the people.
00:29The CIO and police were outnumbered by large groups of Presidential Security Service, or PSS, personnel and military troops assigned to Presidential Security.
00:38Due to safety concerns and obstruction, the CIO suspends the arrest attempt by 1.30 p.m. and would consider the next steps.
00:45Yoon's legal team argues that the CIO lacked the authority to investigate insurrection and criticized the attempt to execute an arrest in a sensitive security area.