Overview

• Han Duck-soo appeared at Special Counsel Cho Eun-suk’s office on Friday for a third round of questioning, after a 16-hour session earlier this week.
• Cho’s team is expected to decide whether to seek an arrest warrant after the session, with some reports indicating a request could come as soon as this weekend.
• Investigators consider Han a key accomplice due to his position as second-in-command and his procedural role, and they are weighing counts that include participation in or aiding an insurrection, perjury, document falsification, destruction of records, and violation of presidential archives law.
• Han’s latest statement that he received the proclamation directly from Yoon conflicts with earlier testimony that he had not seen it, fueling perjury suspicions and tying into claims that he was involved in drafting and destroying a revised decree after the measure was lifted.
• The probe broadened to military and election-related angles, with questioning of the Joint Chiefs chairman about an alleged drone operation and confirmation that ex-intelligence commander Noh Sang-won acknowledges authorship of a notebook under review.