South Korea’s ruling party leader says president ordered arrest of prominent politicians during martial law

SOUTH Korea’s ruling party leader Han Dong Hoon said on Friday that President Yoon Suk Yeol had ordered the arrest of prominent politicians over grounds that they were “anti-state forces” during the martial law Yoon declared earlier this week.

“It was confirmed last night (Thursday) through credible evidence that on the day martial law was declared, President Yoon Suk Yeol instructed the chief of the Counterintelligence Command, his junior from university, to arrest key politicians, (labelling) them as anti-state forces, and mobilised intelligence agencies to arrest them,” Han said in televised remarks. AFP, REUTERS