South Korea bans president from traveling overseas as insurrection probe widens

South Korean authorities have imposed an overseas travel ban on President Yoon Suk Yeol as prosecutors weigh possible insurrection charges over his botched attempt to impose martial law last week.While Yoon survived an impeachment vote in an opposition-led parliament on Saturday, his political survival now hangs in tatters. The travel ban on the country’s embattled leader was confirmed by the Corruption Investigation Office on Monday. His party previously said they will seek Yoon’s resignation and urged the president to be suspended from duties to protect the country from “grave danger.”

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