South Korean president arrested after attempt to impose martial law

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested, six weeks after his short-lived attempt to impose martial law.

A motorcade of black SUVs was seen leaving the gates of his hillside residence where he had been holed up for weeks behind barbed wire and a small army of personal security.

Police had been trying to access the president's official office to detain him but had become engaged in a standoff with the president's security service.

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