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Efforts to arrest impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol failed on Friday after a “human wall” consisting of hundreds of his supporters blocked authorities from entering the presidential compound. “It was judged that it was virtually impossible to execute the arrest warrant due to the ongoing standoff,” the country’s Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO) said in a statement.

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Efforts to arrest impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol failed on Friday after a “human wall” consisting of hundreds of his supporters blocked authorities from entering the presidential compound. “It was judged that it was virtually impossible to execute the arrest warrant due to the ongoing standoff,” the country’s Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO) said in a statement.

A mix of presidential guards, military troops, and Seoul residents, who adopted the “Stop the Steal” slogan popularized by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s followers, assembled to prevent the CIO from executing the arrest order. Yoon was never seen during the standoff, which lasted six hours, and the CIO ultimately called off the arrest attempt due to safety risks to its personnel.

If the operation had been successful, Yoon would have become the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested.

Yoon is under criminal investigation for........

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