He's even talking about arresting the incumbent president.What's the feasibility?

[Anchor]
While President Yoon Suk Yeol has been identified as a "civil war mob" by various investigative agencies, the possibility of securing a new recruit for President Yoon is also being discussed.

The head of the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit directly mentioned the emergency arrest, but would it be possible to arrest the incumbent president urgently?

Reporter Shin Ji-won weighed it.

[Reporter]
While the prosecution's Special Investigation Headquarters is investigating President Yoon Suk Yeol as the "peak" of the civil war,
Director of Airborne Oh Dong-woon, who raised the anti-departure flag of President Yoon
mentioned the possibility of an emergency arrest.

Legally, it is not impossible to arrest a sitting president urgently.

Even a sitting president can be subject to investigation only for "crime of rebellion" and a felony suspect can be arrested without a warrant.
Like the case of former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun and National Police Agency Commissioner Jo Ji-ho, President
Yoon could be arrested urgently during the investigation.

The problem is that if President Yoon refuses to comply with the investigation itself, there is a risk of conflict between the investigative agency and the presidential security agency.

This is because under the current law, the president is subject to security from the security service for five years, even if he leaves office before the expiration of his term, unless he goes against his will.

In response, Justice Minister Park Sung-jae said that resisting the arrest of investigative agencies could be a "obstruction of the execution of public affairs."

[Park Sung-jae / Minister of Justice] Resisting due execution of official duties will be another matter. (If you resist, it interferes with the execution of official duties, right?) That's what I think.]

However, in reality, it is unlikely that the presidential security service will resist the execution of arrest warrants issued by the court.

As the prosecution's special investigation headquarters, which arrested former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun earlier, is taking a cautious approach to the president's investigation,

It is expected that the investigation will be conducted in the direction of avoiding physical collisions.

I'm Shin Jiwon of YTN.

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