Mr Yoon is South Korea ’s first sitting president to face arrest, after the CIO said on Tuesday that a Seoul court had granted the detention warrant sought by prosecutors investigating whether Mr Yoon’s shortlived declaration of martial law amounted to insurrection.

SEOUL: North Korean state media on Friday (Jan 3) said South Korea was in "chaos" and paralysed politically over an attempt by investigators to execute an arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol.