South Korea: Yoon not to appear for questioning Monday: lawyers

 Arrested President Yoon Suk Yeol will not appear for further questioning over his failed martial law bid Monday, his lawyers said, Yonhap reports. 

Yoon has been ordered by the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) to appear for questioning at 10 a.m. after he failed to appear the previous day.

The CIO is expected to forcibly bring him in or visit him at the Seoul Detention Center where he has been held since last Wednesday if he continues to resist the orders.

Yoon was placed under formal arrest early Sunday after a court issued a warrant to extend his detention over concerns he might destroy evidence.

The impeached president faces charges of leading an insurrection and abusing his power through his short-lived imposition of martial law on Dec. 3.

As earlier reported, legal representatives of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol said Saturday that Yoon has decided to attend a court hearing for an arrest warrant against him to explain the legitimacy of his short-lived martial law decree.