South Korea: Investigators attempt to arrest impeached president Yoon for second time

Shaimaa Khalil
Reporting from Seoul

This is a picture of the political crisis that South Korea finds itself in.

You’ve got two branches of executive power: the police – essentially law enforcement officers that have a legal arrest warrant that they’re trying to execute – and presidential security staff, who are blocking them.

This raises the question of who exactly is in charge.

Both say they’re following orders and following the rule of law, but what that tells you is that there are potential clashes between them as two orders of power.

All of this is happening while the president himself is yet to appear in an impeachment trial.

There are, in a way, two parallel crises happening at once, with the South Korean public watching in real time – anti-Yoon protesters on one side, pro-Yoon protesters on the other.