South Korea’s Yoon faces criminal investigation

South Korea’s leadership crisis deepened yesterday as prosecutors named President Yoon Suk Yeol as a subject of a criminal investigation over last week’s martial law attempt, a media report said, and his former defence minister was arrested.

Yoon survived an impeachment vote in the opposition-led parliament late on Saturday, prompted by his short-lived attempt to impose martial law on Tuesday, but the leader of his own party said the president would effectively be excluded from his duties before stepping down.

That proposal, which appeared to win tacit approval from prime minister yesterday, drew condemnation from opposition lawmakers.

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