With lawmakers from the ruling People Power Party (PPP) boycotting it, the committee, mostly consisting of lawmakers from the main Democratic Party (DP), reportedly arranged their visit schedule with a remand prison in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, where Yoon has been detained since his arrest on Dec. 19.
Their inquiry is expected to be focused on details outlined in the indictments of those involved in the abrupt Dec. 3 declaration of martial law on charges of insurrection and abuse of power, as well as relevant testimony from witnesses.
However, it remains to be seen whether Yoon is willing to meet them for questioning, as he refused to see them during their previous attempts last week.
Earlier in the day, a handful of lawmakers from the committee visited a remand prison in southern Seoul where Kim has been detained since last December but had to leave without seeing him as he refused to meet them.
Meanwhile, key witnesses in Yoon's ongoing impeachment trial appeared for a hearing at the Constitutional Court of Korea the previous day and refused to answer most of questions, citing their legal rights to remain silent.
Unlike them, another witness Hong Jang-won, a former deputy director of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), testified again that Yoon instructed him in a phone call to "round them (lawmakers) all up."
Yoon then refuted his testimony, saying that his instructions to Hong were to assist in arresting "spies," which had nothing to do with martial law. He questioned why he would have given such instructions to the NIS' first deputy director instead of its chief if that had been his intention.
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