Hundreds of the president's supporters are demonstrating outside the residence on Wednesday to protect Yoon Suk-Yeol as investigators prepare a new attempt to arrest him.
We cannot disclose the president's specific location. We are still tracking where he is, says a police source to the South Korean news agency Yonhap.
Yoon Suk-Yeol triggered political chaos when he suddenly announced on December 3 that he was declaring a state of emergency with accompanying martial law, citing that the opposition had completely paralyzed the government's work. He was stripped of presidential power on December 14, when parliament voted to put him on trial.
Since then, he is said to have been staying in the presidential residence, where he has refused to let himself be arrested despite an arrest warrant being issued against him.
According to opposition politician Yun Kun-young, the presidential residence is being "transformed into a fortress". Barbed wire has been set up on the locked entrance gates and buses have been placed to block a possible arrest, reports AFP.
However, on Tuesday, reports circulated that Yoon had left his residence, after the head of the corruption prosecutors investigating him told the country's parliamentarians that he could not say with certainty that Yoon was still there.
