Yonhap news agency says police are searching President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office.

South Korea’s national police chief and top police officer for the capital, Seoul, were detained for their roles in enforcing President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived martial law decree last week

The South Korean president has defended his martial law decree as act of governance and denied rebellion charges.

North Korean state media KCNA on Wednesday reported for the first time on South Korea's ongoing political turmoil since President Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law attempt. Last week's shocking martial law order triggered concerns about a power vacuum and plunged Asia's fourth-largest economy and a key U.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday lashed out at his political opponents as "anti-state forces", said North Korea has hacked the country's elections and defended his short-lived martial law order as a legal move to protect democracy.