SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- The leader of South Korea's main opposition party said Friday that the fastest and the most effective way to restore order in the country was to impeach President Yoon Suk-yeol amid ongoing political turmoil.
Lee Jae-myung, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, called on members of the ruling People Power Party to vote in favor of a new impeachment motion against Yoon over his martial law declaration, saying that "history will remember" their decisions.
The Democratic Party on Friday reported the second impeachment motion against the president to the National Assembly after the first one was scrapped last Saturday, with the parliament set to vote on it at 4:00 p.m. local time Saturday.
The second motion included allegations that martial law troops and police attempted to arrest lawmakers under the leadership of Yoon.
Meanwhile, President Yoon's approval rating fell to a record low of 11 percent, while negative assessment on Yoon's conduct of state affairs rose to a record high of 85 percent amid growing public backlash over his martial law declaration, the local pollster Gallup Korea's weekly survey showed Friday.
The Seoul Central District Court on Friday evening issued arrest warrants for Cho Ji-ho, commissioner general of the Korean National Police Agency, and Kim Bong-sik, head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, citing risk of destruction of evidence.
The two top police officers had been placed under emergency arrest since Wednesday on charges of ordering police deployment to the National Assembly to block lawmakers from voting down Yoon's martial law decree.
Also on Friday evening, prosecutors arrested Lee Jin-woo, chief of the Capital Defense Command, who was accused of ordering the deployment of martial law troops to the National Assembly building after Yoon declared martial law on Dec. 3.
Earlier in the day, an unidentified official with the National Office of Investigation (NOI) said police were considering filing an arrest warrant for President Yoon and raiding the presidential residence as part of their investigations into insurrection charges against him, Yonhap news agency reported.
The official at the NOI's special investigation team said they were also looking into possibly filing a warrant to seize Yoon's communication records or asking him to appear for questioning, the report said.
The NOI's special investigation team on Friday also dispatched investigators to Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency to secure computer information and other documents over the martial law probe. ■