Overview

• Judge Nam Se-jin authorized the July 10 warrant over concerns that Yoon could destroy evidence in the special counsel’s probe.
• Yoon is held at the Uiwang Detention Center as judges decide whether to extend his pretrial detention.
• A special counsel investigating the aborted martial law declaration interrogated Yoon twice, including a nine-hour hearing last weekend.
• His December 3 declaration of martial law and deployment of troops to Parliament led to impeachment by the National Assembly and removal by the Constitutional Court in April.
• South Korea’s constitution treats unilateral military action against the legislature as insurrection, underscoring the severity of the charges.