South Korean authorities have granted a request to extend a warrant to detain the country’s suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol for questioning over his surprise declaration of martial law last month.

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol faces a new and potentially more robust attempt to arrest him for insurrection after a top investigator vowed to do whatever it takes to break a security blockade and take in the impeached leader.

STORY: South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has been hunkered down behind barbed wire, defying efforts to place him under arrest.But he now faces a new effort to take him into custody, as a top investigator vowed to do whatever it takes to break the security blockade.