South Korean prosecutors said on Sunday they had sought court approval to detain the head of a military drone unit as part of an investigation into former President Yoon Suk Yeol and drone operations in neighboring North Korea.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors stepped up a probe into the drone operation after indicting the jailed ex-President Yoon on Saturday on additional charges for his short-lived declaration of martial law in December.<\/p>\n
They had summoned the unit’s chief, Kim Yong-dae, on Thursday regarding accusations that Yoon ordered a covert drone operation into the North last year to inflame tension between the neighbors to justify his martial law decree, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n
Yoon has denied the accusations.<\/p>\n
Kim told reporters the incident was part of a “clandestine military operation” in response to trash balloons sent from the North and not intended to provoke the neighboring nation.<\/p>\n
In October, North Korea said the South had sent drones to scatter anti-North Korea leaflets over Pyongyang, and published photos of the remains of a crashed South Korean military drone.<\/p>\n
South Korea at the time declined to disclose whether it had sent the drones.<\/p>\n
In a statement on Sunday, the prosecution office said it had sought an arrest warrant for Kim. Media said a court hearing is planned for Monday afternoon to review the request for a warrant.<\/p>\n
He was arrested on Friday without a court warrant, media said. Prosecutors and police are permitted to make an “emergency arrest” if they have a strong belief someone is guilty of a serious crime and may flee or destroy evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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