People Power Party Chair Han Dong-hoon maintained his stance that President Yoon Suk Yeol should be "suspended from his position," he told party lawmakers after a face-to-face meeting with the embattled South Korean president on Friday afternoon. Han also said did not hear anything from Yoon to overturn his stance announced earlier in the day.

"I did not hear anything from Yoon that could have changed my position," Han was quoted as saying at the party meeting Friday afternoon in news reports.

He added, "I cannot change the party's decision (to vote as a bloc against Yoon's impeachment on Thursday), but my position that (Yoon) should be suspended from his post remains unchanged."

Han was also told that "now is not the right time," when he asked Yoon to explain his sudden decision to declare martial law given that days have now passed since Tuesday night, according to news reports.

Han also said that Yoon had "denied that he made the final decision" to deploy armed martial law troops to the National Assembly.

Earlier on Friday, Han reportedly met Yoon at the latter's request at the official presidential residence in Yongsan-gu.

Also attending the meeting were Yoon's chief of staff, Chung Jin-suk, and Rep. Joo Jin-woo of the People Power Party, according to reports. Yoon's office was not immediately available for comment.

Before his meeting with the president, Han had demanded that Yoon be suspended from his post immediately.

Logically, the two options for Yoon to be suspended from his post would either be the ruling party lawmakers voting for impeachment or Yoon resigning voluntarily.

Before the Yoon-Han meeting, Han had said on Friday morning, he had obtained information indicating that on Tuesday night when Yoon had declared martial law, the president had ordered intelligence agencies to arrest an undisclosed number of lawmakers on the grounds that they were "anti-state forces" and detain them in the Gwacheon detention facility.

Han did not clarify over who was to be arrested, but later on Friday, Hong Jang-won, first deputy director of the National Intelligence Service, said at the National Assembly that Yoon had ordered the Army to take into custody six political leaders, including Han himself, on Tuesday night.