Overview

• Yoon Suk Yeol has ignored three police summonses in the martial law investigation, prompting authorities to consider seeking his detention.
• His charges include ordering the Presidential Security Service to block a detention warrant and delete secure phone records after the failed December 3 martial law decree.
• Special counsel Cho Eun-suk added obstruction of official duties and evidence-destruction counts against former defense minister Kim Yong-hyun.
• Cho plans to merge the new charges with Kim’s existing insurrection case and request a fresh arrest warrant before June 26.
• Yoon remains on trial before the Constitutional Court for insurrection related to his December 3, 2024 martial law declaration.