By Ju-min Park
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will settle for the choice of the Constitutional Courtroom that’s making an attempt parliament’s impeachment case towards him, even when it decides to take away the suspended chief from workplace, his lawyer mentioned on Thursday.
“So if the choice is ‘removing’, it can’t however be accepted,” Yoon Kab-keun, the lawyer for Yoon, instructed a information convention, when requested if Yoon would settle for regardless of the consequence of trial was
Yoon has earlier defied the court docket’s requests to submit authorized briefs earlier than the court docket started its listening to on Dec. 27, however his attorneys have mentioned he was keen to seem in particular person to argue his case.
The suspended president has defied repeated summons in a separate prison investigation into allegations he masterminded rebellion together with his Dec. 3 martial legislation bid.
Yoon, the lawyer, mentioned the president is presently at his official residence and appeared wholesome, amid hypothesis over the suspended chief’s whereabouts.
Presidential safety guards resisted an preliminary effort to arrest Yoon final week although he faces one other try after a high investigator vowed to do no matter it takes to interrupt a safety blockade and take within the embattled chief.
Seok Dong-hyeon, one other lawyer advising Yoon, mentioned Yoon considered the makes an attempt to arrest him as politically motivated and aimed toward humiliating him by bringing him out in public carrying handcuffs.
