South Korean police failed to raid the presidential office on Wednesday as the presidential security service refused to cooperate with their investigation into President Yoon Suk-yeol's brief imposition of martial law last week.

SEOUL -- South Korean police failed to raid the presidential office Wednesday after the presidential security service refused to cooperate with their investigation into President Yoon Suk-yeol's brief imposition of martial law last week, Yonhap news agency reported.

SEOUL -- South Korea's police, Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) and the defense ministry will jointly investigate President Yoon Suk-yeol's martial law declaration, multiple media outlets said Wednesday.

The National Police Agency's National Office of Investigation (NOI), the CIO and the defense ministry's investigation headquarters launched a joint investigation team to probe Yoon's declaration of an emergency martial law on the night of Dec. 3 that was repealed by the National Assembly hours later.

SEOUL -- South Korean police have entered the headquarters of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for investigation, local media Newsis reported Wednesday.

SEOUL -- South Korean ex-defense minister Kim Yong-hyun attempted to take his own life while being held at a detention facility on charges of insurrection, and he was currently in stable condition, the Justice Ministry said Wednesday.

Kim was found trying to hang himself with a rope made from tying together innerwear inside a bathroom at the Seoul Dongbu Detention Center in eastern Seoul at 11:52 pm local time Tuesday, shortly before a court issued an arrest warrant for him, the ministry said.

SEOUL -- South Korean lawmakers are scheduled to vote at 5 pm local time this Saturday on the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea's motion to impeach President Yoon Suk-yeol over his botched attempt to impose martial law, local media reported Wednesday.

Yoon escaped impeachment last Saturday due to a lack of quorum as most lawmakers from his ruling People Power Party boycotted the vote.

SEOUL -- South Korea's Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) chief said Wednesday that the CIO will attempt to arrest President Yoon Suk-yeol with and without an arrest warrant if conditions are met, according to multiple media outlets.

Oh Dong-woon made the remark during a parliamentary hearing, saying the CIO will do everything it can.

SEOUL -- South Korean prosecutors Wednesday raided the headquarters of the Army Special Warfare Command as part of their probe into President Yoon Suk-yeol's martial law declaration last week.

SEOUL -- South Korean police raided the office of the embattled President Yoon Suk-yeol over his martial law declaration last week, multiple media outlets said Wednesday.

Those subject to the raid were the National Police Agency, the Seoul Metropolitan Police and the National Assembly Police Guards as well as the presidential office.

Embattled South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is facing bleak prospects after the parliament passed a bill on Tuesday mandating a permanent special counsel to probe treason charges over his failed bid to impose martial law.

S. Korean parliament speaker invokes authority to conduct probe into president's martial law decree

SEOUL -- Police arrested early Wednesday South Korea's police commissioner and the Seoul police chief in connection with a probe into President Yoon Suk-yeol's short-lived martial law imposition, Yonhap news agency reported.

Cho Ji-ho, commissioner general of the Korean National Police Agency, and Kim Bong-sik, head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, were arrested on insurrection charges, according to a special investigation team under the national police.

SEOUL -- South Korea's former defense minister Kim Yong-hyun was formally arrested Wednesday on insurrection charges related to President Yoon Suk-yeol's declaration of martial law, Yonhap news agency reported.

The Seoul Central District Court issued a formal arrest warrant for Kim, who had already been detained since Sunday, after prosecutors accused him of engaging in "essential" activities in insurrection and abusing his power to obstruct the exercising of rights when martial law was in place for six hours between Tuesday and Wednesday last week, the report said.

SEOUL -- A South Korean court issued an arrest warrant for former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun, who allegedly proposed last week's martial law declaration to President Yoon Suk-yeol, for a treason charge, multiple media outlets said early Wednesday.

The Seoul Central District Court granted the prosecution's request to arrest Kim, saying it was worried that he would destroy evidence.

South Korean parliament passes resolution on immediate arrest of President Yoon. 

SEOUL -- South Korea's parliament passed a bill Tuesday to appoint a standing special prosecutor and investigate President Yoon Suk-yeol's treason charge, TV footage showed Tuesday.

Among 287 National Assembly lawmakers attending the plenary session, 210 voted in favor and 63 against, with 14 abstentions.

SEOUL -- South Korean prosecutors on Monday requested for an arrest warrant against former defense minister Kim Yong-hyun.

SEOUL - South Korea's Ministry of Justice placed an order to ban President Yoon Suk-yeol from leaving the country, Yonhap news agency reported Monday.

The decision came within an hour after the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials requested the travel ban.