Police in South Korea entered the building where President Jun Suk Jeol met with other people just before declaring martial law, Yonhap news agency from Seoul reported, followed by Reuters. The officers want to secure the recordings from the surveillance cameras. Yonhap refers to the building as a “hideout.”
The intervention is related to the investigation into the introduction of martial law.
Yonhap said the purpose of the police search was to secure surveillance footage and identify people who entered the building just a few hours before martial law was declared in early December.
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South Korean President Jun Suk Jeol announced martial law on the evening of December 3, which he lifted six hours later under pressure from the National Assembly.
In a later televised speech, Jun explained that he had used his presidential powers to declare martial law “to protect the nation and normalize state affairs against the opposition, which has become a monster destroying the constitutional order of liberal democracy.”
The Korean prosecutor's office is investigating Jun Suk Jeol on suspicion of abuse of power and coup d'état.
South Korean President Jun Suk JeolToby Melville – WPA Pool/Getty Images
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