After a South Korean news outlet fed into far-right conspiracies by reporting that "Chinese spies" tampering with the country ...

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WASHINGTON − President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Pentagon upset key U.S. ally South Korea Tuesday when he labeled North Korea a "nuclear power" in a statement submitted to a ...

Picture: Korea Pool/Getty South Korean impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives at the complex building housing the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) in Gwacheon on ...

Yoon had been holed up at South Korea’s fortified presidential residence in a wealthy riverside neighborhood in central Seoul. He was protected by the country’s Secret Service, which has said ...

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported that the deputy chief of Korea’s Corruption Investigation Office (CIO), Lee Jae-seung, led questioning of Yoon inside an interrogation room ...

Yoon shocked the nation late on December 3 when he declared martial law, claiming he needed to safeguard South Korea "from the threats posed by North Korea's communist forces and eliminate anti ...

YONHAP/AFP via Getty Images Under South Korea's constitution, if a sitting president is accused of insurrection, the police have the authority to arrest him while he is still in office.

South Korea's Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials said they had executed an arrest warrant for Yoon at 10.33 am local time, per a statement obtained by Yonhap News.