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South Korean president arrested after dramatic hours-long standoff
BBC ^ | Jan 14 | BBC

Posted on 01/14/2025 9:06:33 PM PST by RandFan

Summary

South Korean authorities have arrested President Yoon Suk Yeol, who faces charges of insurrection following an attempt to impose martial law

Yoon is now at the Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) - he said he agreed to the interrogation "even though it is an illegal investigation, in order to prevent any unsavoury bloodshed"

Authorities served the warrant after an hours-long standoff with his security staff and supporters, which saw investigators using ladders and wirecutters to enter Yoon's residence

Yoon had been holed up for weeks - investigators tried to arrest him earlier this month but failed

This marks the first time in South Korea's history that a sitting president has been arrested

Yoon's impeachment trial, which will decide if he is removed from office, started yesterday but ended within four minutes because of his absence

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fakeheadline; korea; southkorea
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First time in its history a sitting president has been arrested 👀
1 posted on 01/14/2025 9:06:33 PM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

This is what the DemonRats would do (in a heartbeat!) to President Trump — if they thought they could pull it off.

The RoK government perpetrating this is marxist, and evil.

May they fail miserably and eat the bitter fruit of the result.


2 posted on 01/14/2025 9:10:47 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Nervous Tick

Yes they’re salivating at that prospect


3 posted on 01/14/2025 9:14:56 PM PST by RandFan
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To: Nervous Tick

The opposition party storming the building, is riddled with, if not entirely comprised of Chinese communists.

Yes, the equivalent of the rat party in America.


4 posted on 01/14/2025 9:23:19 PM PST by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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To: RandFan

>> Yes they’re salivating at that prospect

At that prospect, or ‘cause the DemonRats are rabid animals doing what rabid animals do...


5 posted on 01/14/2025 9:29:22 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Nervous Tick

Well said.


6 posted on 01/14/2025 10:09:14 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: freepersup

That’s correct.


7 posted on 01/14/2025 10:09:31 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: RandFan

Little Kim is champing at the bit. Pweeze, daddy Xi, can I invade now?

No. No invade now. Twump about to be swo’n in. He be mighty p!ssed, you invade now. Make tawiffs, no dwop sanctions. Be patient, wike Chinese. Fust we kiww him and Vance. Den we bofe invade Sous and awso Cawifo’nia, whiwe evewybody stiww butt huht.

Yes, daddy Xi. No invade. (@#$@$@)

Wish dey aww cud be Cawifo’nia guws...


8 posted on 01/14/2025 11:16:36 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need ofand there we a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: RandFan

Communists making their moves.


9 posted on 01/15/2025 12:43:40 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Nervous Tick

Well, good thing that North Korea is lead by someone so sane......(j/k)

This whole ROK thing is bizarre....


10 posted on 01/15/2025 12:54:14 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Nervous Tick

Well, good thing that North Korea is led by someone so sane......(j/k) (LOL

This whole ROK thing is bizarre....


11 posted on 01/15/2025 12:55:09 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris; null and void; Red Badger; SunkenCiv; monkeyshine; The Spirit Of Allegiance
This whole ROK thing is bizarre....

Maybe there's something in the fire-water-air-earth:

"South Korean authorities have arrested President Yoon Suk Yeol, who faces charges of insurrection following an attempt to impose martial law"

>>>

Speaking against the backdrop of a fire-ravaged neighborhood, Newsom said that he’s already “organizing a Marshall Plan” and already has a team “looking and reimagining LA 2.0.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gavin-newsom-says-hes-already-070747147.html

South Korea Ring of Fire

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While South Korea is not directly located on the "Ring of Fire," the southernmost part of the Korean peninsula, specifically Jeju Island, is considered to be part of the Ring of Fire due to its volcanic activity and position on a tectonic plate boundary, making it susceptible to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions...

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And...

Jeju Air was named after Jeju Island.

12 posted on 01/15/2025 3:16:59 AM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: RandFan

With the name “Yoo Suk Yeol” I’m surprised he made it that far in politics.


13 posted on 01/15/2025 3:41:32 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: RandFan

Former presidents have been arrested. Sounds like Chicago.

From the article:

He will remain detained over the night at the Seoul Detention Centre.

When former presidents Park Geun-hye and Lee Myung-bak were arrested in 2017 and 2018, they were assigned solitary cells that were larger than the standard single cells, which measured 6.56 square metres (71 square feet).

This will likely be the arrangement for Yoon as well.


14 posted on 01/15/2025 3:43:50 AM PST by Doctor Congo
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To: RandFan
Yoon's impeachment trial, which will decide if he is removed from office, started yesterday but ended within four minutes because of his absence

...because he was at the Seoul Detention Centre.

Well, I guess that's one way to avoid impeachment...

15 posted on 01/15/2025 4:57:50 AM PST by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: RandFan

Will we need another McArthur to save S. Korea from the Chinese?


16 posted on 01/15/2025 5:09:01 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: Paul R.

Perhaps I should more correctly say “Well, I guess that’s one way to avoid the trial...”, since Yoon has already been impeached.


17 posted on 01/15/2025 5:21:21 AM PST by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: Eleutheria5

I will suggest that the reality is there for all to see in Russia.

Nork artillery shells fail on the order of 25% of the time and have in fact misfired killing the Russian artillerymen

The Elite Nork troops deployed in Kursk have been annulated with thousands of dead and wounded. They are just ignorant of what they face in combat. They ar excellent shots with their antique rifles but are totally defenseless against the drones that kill them behind the trees where they try to hide. In the snow covered open fields they must cross, they get picked off one at a time till they are all dead.

If they invade the south, they will all just be wiped out.


18 posted on 01/15/2025 5:29:30 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: bert

The South (Souks?) Koreans are equally green, I think.


19 posted on 01/15/2025 5:45:29 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need ofand there we a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: bert

Might resemble the first fight scene in Yojimbo (Toshiro Mifune/Akira Kurosawa production). Both gangs scared to close with the other, inching together reluctantly, while Yojimbo watches from a high vantage, unconcerned.


20 posted on 01/15/2025 5:53:39 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need ofand there we a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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