South Korea's presidential security chief said Friday there must be no bloodshed if investigators try again to execute an arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid. Yoon would become the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested if investigators are able to detain him.
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"I just feel that people didn't accept me maybe, they didn't understand me the way maybe they do now. And I didn't have much support. Maybe some people see me as just a wife of the President, but I'm standing on my own two feet, independent, I have my own thoughts, I have my own 'yes' and 'no'," Melania said.
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