Right-wing YouTube​rs helped President Yoon Suk Yeol​ win his election. They are now his allies in the wake of his botched imposition of martial law.

The government has little to show for the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on pro-natal policies over nearly two decades.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives late Sunday in crisis-riven South Korea where he will seek delicately to encourage continuity with the policies, but not tactics, of the impeached president.

Although most people in South Korea are upset and angry at Yoon's decision to impose martial law, a core of his supporters have stayed loyal. Some even camped overnight, in freezing temperatures, to try and stop police reaching his home.

The impeached president faces an attempt by authorities to arrest him over his short-lived Dec. 3 martial law.

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Friday that flu cases are rising sharply in South Korea, marking the biggest flu outbreak in that nation since 2016.

Yoon Suk Yeol's security officers refuse to allow police to arrest him over his failed attempt to impose martial law last month.

South Korea’s presidential guards and military troops prevented authorities from arresting Yoon Suk Yeol, the impeached president, on Friday in a tense six-hour stand-off inside his compound in the heart of Seoul.

As first reported by Reuters, the US-based aerospace company will bring its technical expertise to the extensive multinational investigation of Jeju Air Flight 7C2216. Video footage of the ill-fated Jeju Air 737-800 appears to show smoke emanating from its right-hand engine, possibly due to a bird strike, although other factors are being looked at.

Attacks across the Ukraine-Russia border left three people dead on Friday, according to local officials. In northern Ukraine, three missiles struck a residential area near Chernihiv, killing one person, injuring five, and destroying two homes.

The exact cause of the Boeing 737-800 crash is still unknown, but investigators have pointed to a bird strike, faulty landing gear and the runway barrier as possible issues.