A Seoul court issues a detention warrant for Yoon over his failed attempt to impose martial law, making him the first sitting South Korean president to face arrest.
Officials said Yoon's arrest warrant had been served to the presidential security chief, Park Jong-joon, at 10:11 a.m. Friday.
Though Yoon, 64, is not the first South Korean president to be impeached, he would be the East Asian democracy's first sitting president to be arrested.
"Our country belongs to each and every person in South Korea and not a government or a party."
State media in North Korea, which technically remains at war with the South, said Friday that the crisis in South Korea had resulted in "paralysis of its state administration and spiraling socio-political confusion."
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