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.
