The arrest of South Korea’s president won’t end this saga

South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol has been arrested after police officers scaled fences and cut through barbed wire to detain him in his luxury Seoul residence. Suk-yeol, the first ever sitting South Korean leader to be taken into custody, was held in connection with his failed attempt to impose martial law last month. But while South Korean authorities have finally got their man, this is far from the end of the saga.

A motorcade believed to be carrying the president was seen leaving his compound and he appears to be being held at the CIO (Corruption Investigation Office) headquarters in the nearby city of Gwacheon. This was the second attempt by CIO officers and police to arrest Yoon following the failed attempt on 3 January, when 200 members of the PSS (Presidential Security Service) blocked the way. Details of what exactly happened this morning are still sketchy but it is being reported that Yoon climbed down as investigators were climbing up, literally, into his residence using ladders brought along to evade an anticipated blockade.