By Ju-min Park

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will accept the decision of the Constitutional Court trying the parliament’s impeachment case against him, even if it decides to remove the suspended leader from office, his lawyer said on Thursday Thursday.

“So if the decision is ‘removal’, it can’t be but accepted,” Yoon Kab-keun, Yoon’s lawyer, told a news conference, when asked if Yoon would accept any outcome. to test.

Yoon initially resisted court requests to submit legal briefs before the court hearing began on December 27, but his lawyers said he is willing to appear in person to argue his case.

The suspended president has defied repeated calls for a separate criminal investigation into allegations that he masterminded the insurrection in his December 3 martial law bid.

Yoon, the lawyer, said the president is currently at his official residence and appears healthy, amid speculation of the suspended leader.

Presidential security guards resisted an initial effort to arrest Yoon last week even as he faces another trial after a top investigator vowed to do everything to break a blockade of security and get the embattled leader.

Seok Dong-hyeon, another lawyer advising Yoon, said Yoon viewed the attempts to arrest him as politically motivated and aimed to embarrass him by bringing him out in public in handcuffs.