Former minister South Korea Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun was detained this Sunday by order of local prosecutors as part of an investigation into the case. martial law decree passed last Tuesday by the country’s President Yoon Seok-yeol.

Kim, whose resignation took effect last Thursday, He was arrested after questioning at the prosecutor’s office. as part of an investigation into the state of emergency that has rocked the country and amid suspicions that the measure constitutes, among other things, the crime of treason or sedition.

A special investigative unit of the prosecutor’s office has been appointed to investigate the martial law case. announced this Saturday the arrest of the former minister and the confiscation of his phone after Kim appeared before the media hours earlier to express his desire to cooperate with South Korean authorities.

The arrest took place after proposal to impeach South Korean president fails in the National Assembly due to the boycott of the vote by the ruling Yun Party.

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The prosecutor’s office decided to urgently arrest Kim, given that there is a risk of destruction of evidence possible crimes of treason or incitementfor which the Criminal Code of South Korea provides for such a punishment as life imprisonment.

Kim, a person very close to the South Korean president, He is considered one of the high-ranking officials. who suggested that Yun resort to martial law and supervised its application.

The former minister tendered his resignation to Yoon last Wednesday. for his responsibility for imposing the state of emergency and the chaos it caused, and the president accepted it the next day, leaving Kim singled out for a measure that led to South Korea’s biggest political crisis in its recent history. (EFE)