RALLY SUPPORT: Yoon Suk-yeol’s lawyer said that the president is at his residence and appeared healthy, amid speculation over the whereabouts of the leader
Reuters, SEOUL
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol would accept the decision of the South Korean 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 yesterday.
“So if the decision is ‘removal,’ it cannot but be accepted,” Yoon Kab-keun, the president’s lawyer, told a news conference when asked if Yoon Suk-yeol would accept whatever the outcome of trial was
Yoon Suk-yeol has defied the court’s requests to submit legal briefs before the hearing began on Dec. 27, but his lawyers have said he was willing to appear in person to argue his case.
A woman holds South Korean and US flags at a rally in support of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol near his official residence in Seoul yesterday.
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The suspended president has defied repeated summons in a separate criminal investigation into allegations he masterminded insurrection with a martial law bid on Dec. 3.
Yoon Kab-keun said that the president is at his official residence and appeared healthy, amid speculation over the suspended leader’s whereabouts.
Presidential security guards resisted an initial effort to arrest Yoon Suk-yeol last week, although he faces another attempt after a top investigator vowed to do whatever it takes to break a security blockade and take him into custody.
Seok Dong-hyeon, another lawyer advising Yoon Suk-yeol, said that the president viewed the attempts to arrest him as politically motivated and aimed at humiliating him by bringing him out in public wearing handcuffs.
