Top aide of impeached South Korean president urges end to detention efforts

The top aide of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has pleaded with law enforcement agencies to abandon their efforts to detain him over his imposition of martial law (Lee Jin-man/AP)

The top aide of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol pleaded with law enforcement agencies on Tuesday to abandon their efforts to detain him over his imposition of martial law last month, as authorities prepared a second attempt to take him into custody.

Presidential Chief of Staff Chung Jin-suk said Mr Yoon could instead be questioned at a “third site” or at his residence, and said the anti-corruption agency and police are trying to drag him out as if he was a member of a “South American drug cartel”.