Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s lawyer Yoon Kab-keun said the suspended President is currently at his official residence and appeared healthy, amid speculation over the suspended leader’s whereabouts. File
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“South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will accept the decision of the Constitutional Court that is trying parliament’s impeachment case against him, even if it decides to remove the suspended leader from office,” his lawyer said on Thursday (January 9, 2025).
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“So if the decision is ‘removal’, it cannot but be accepted,” Yoon Kab-keun, the lawyer for Mr. Yoon, told a news conference, when asked if Mr. Yoon would accept the outcome of trial.
Mr. Yoon has earlier defied the court’s requests to submit legal briefs before the court began its hearing on December 27, but his lawyers have said he was willing to appear in person to argue his case.
The suspended President has defied repeated summons in a separate criminal investigation into allegations he masterminded insurrection with his December 3 martial law bid.
Mr. Yoon, the lawyer, said the President is currently at his official residence and appeared healthy, amid speculation over the suspended leader’s whereabouts.
Presidential security guards resisted an initial effort to arrest Mr. Yoon last week though he faces another attempt after a top investigator vowed to do whatever it takes to break a security blockade and take in the embattled leader.
Seok Dong-hyeon, another lawyer advising Mr. Yoon, said that Mr. Yoon viewed the attempts to arrest him as politically motivated and aimed at humiliating him by bringing him out in public wearing handcuffs.
Published – January 09, 2025 11:41 am IST