The recent standoff in South Korea, where Yoon Suk Yeol’s arrest was thwarted by his Presidential Security Service (PSS), raises significant questions about the implications for acting President Choi Sang-mok.

South Korean investigators have suspended efforts to enforce an arrest warrant for embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday, hours into a standoff in which authorities tried to detain the leader following his short-lived martial law declaration.

South Korean investigators had to abandon an attempt to arrest President Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection. Authorities were locked in a nearly six-hour long standoff in a bid to detain him at his residence.