For weeks, impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has remained in his compound and refused to respond to detention and search warrants.

Protesters have thronged the official residence of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, where officials trying to arrest him were blocked by security guards.

South Korea’s anti-graft agency will seek to extend an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol, as pressure mounted on law enforcement to resolve the country’s escalating political crisis.

North Korea on Monday fired a ballistic missile that flew 1,100 kilometers (685 miles) before landing in waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, South Korea’s military said, extending its weapons testing weeks before Donald Trump returns as U.

The U.S. secretary of state aimed to show that his country stood by South Korea as it grapples with a political crisis, and as Donald J. Trump returns to power.