South Korea’s Yoon won’t attend first impeachment listening to

Seoul –
South Korea’s suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol won’t attend the primary listening to of his impeachment trial this week due to security considerations, his lawyer mentioned on Sunday.

Yoon has been holed up within the presidential residence and guarded by an elite guard pressure since being suspended and impeached final month, following a short-lived declaration of martial legislation that plunged the nation into political chaos.

He has refused to fulfill prosecutors and investigators and his presidential guard unit thwarted an try and arrest him following a tense, hours-long standoff earlier this month.