President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has already been impeached, became South Korea’s first sitting leader to be detained after weeks of openly defying authorities.

South Korean authorities arrested impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday over insurrection accusations related to his Dec. 3 martial law declaration, investigators said. Yoon's presidential motorcade left the hillside residence where he had been holed up for weeks behind barbed wire barriers and a small army of personal security,