South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has been detained in a massive law enforcement operation at the presidential compound. Yoon said he complied with the warrant after weeks of defiance over attempts to question him after he enacted martial law last month.

T HE PRESIDENCY of South Korea can be a treacherous job. Past office-holders have been impeached and even assassinated. But until January 15th, when investigators took Yoon Suk Yeol into custody, a sitting president had never been arrested.

Yoon was brought into custody about three hours after hundreds of law enforcement officers entered the residential compound in their second attempt to detain him.