Chief of security for South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has said he will not cooperate with efforts to arrest the impeached leader.
The official, Park Chong-jun, cited the legal debate surrounding the warrant as the reason for the lack of cooperation, with both the presidential security service and military troops blocking criminal investigators from making the arrest in a six-hour standoff last Friday.
In a statement he asked for people to “refrain from insulting remarks that the presidential security service has been reduced to a private army", stating that the security service had provided protection to all presidents for 60 years, regardless of political affiliation.
The comments came after Yoon's lawyers said that the arrest warrant, which expires on Monday, 3 pm GMT was unconstitutional, but a Seoul court has rejected this complaint.
Yoon was impeached after he made an attempt to impose martial law in December, and made him the first in power president to face arrest in South Korea history.
