Overview

• Shim Woo-jung arrived at the Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office on Sunday morning for questioning as a suspect in the Dec. 3 martial law case.
• The inquiry centers on whether then-Justice Minister Park Sung-jae instructed him to dispatch prosecutors, with records indicating three phone calls between them overnight on Dec. 3–4.
• Prosecutors are probing reports that a Supreme Prosecutors’ Office official was present at the National Election Commission on the day martial law was declared.
• Investigators are also reviewing Shim’s decision not to appeal a March court ruling that released Yoon from detention, which allowed him to remain free until his July arrest.
• Documents seized from Park’s home are said to outline dispatch orders, while the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office and Park’s side dispute that prosecutors were to be sent.