Choo Kyung-ho Faces Possible Arrest Today Over Martial Law Lift Obstruction: What Will the Court Decide?

[Financial News] The court will decide on June 2 whether Choo Kyung-ho, a lawmaker from the People Power Party accused of obstructing lawmakers from participating in the vote to lift martial law during the December 3 emergency, will be arrested.
Lee Jung-jae, the judge in charge of warrants at the Seoul Central District Court, will conduct a pre-arrest interrogation (warrant review) for Choo, who is charged with performing key duties related to insurrection, starting at 3 p.m. today.
Choo is suspected of having obstructed other lawmakers from participating in the vote to lift martial law last year by repeatedly changing the venue of the party caucus at the request of former President Yoon Suk Yeol.
At that time, after the declaration of martial law, Choo convened an emergency party meeting and changed the location three times—from the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea to the party headquarters, back to the National Assembly, and then again to the party headquarters. As a result, many People Power Party lawmakers were unable to attend the vote on lifting martial law. The resolution to lift martial law was passed with 190 lawmakers present and 190 in favor, while 90 out of 108 People Power Party lawmakers did not participate.
The Special Prosecutor's Office for Insurrection suspects that at around 11:22 p.m. on the day martial law was declared, Choo received a call from Yoon Suk Yeol asking for cooperation with the emergency measures, and then attempted to prevent People Power Party lawmakers from joining the vote to lift martial law.
Despite a request from Han Dong-hoon, then leader of the People Power Party, to gather in the main chamber of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, Choo reportedly insisted on changing the venue again, saying, 'Senior lawmakers will come to the party headquarters, so let's hear their opinions,' according to the Special Prosecutor's Office for Insurrection.
The special prosecutor's office recently obtained testimony from a party official working at the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea that on December 19 last year, Choo greeted an acquaintance in a National Assembly elevator by saying, 'You must be having a tough time these days,' and added, 'If the martial law had gone well, none of this would have come up.'
Choo has denied all allegations raised by the special prosecutor's office.
theknight@fnnews.com Jung Kyung-soo Reporter