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Impeached president fights on despite arrest attempt

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Supporters of Yoon Suk Yeol at a rally near his residence in Seoul on Monday

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South Korean anticorruption officials attempting to arrest the country’s suspended president, Yoon Suk Yeol, must know by now what he meant by his repeated vows to “fight to the end”.

Since his calamitous declaration of martial law, Yoon, along with most of his party, his legal team and, crucially,

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