Lee Jae-myung Slashed Across the Neck By Man in Busan
This is horrible and hopefully Lee Jae-myung is able to fully recover from this attack:
Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was attacked during a visit to the southeastern port city of Busan on Tuesday and taken to a hospital while conscious.
Lee, chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party, was attacked on the left side of his neck by an unidentified man at 10:27 a.m. during a question and answer session with reporters after touring the construction site of a new airport on Busan’s Gadeok Island.
Lee was transferred to Pusan National University Hospital approximately 20 minutes after the attack.
At the time of the transfer, Lee remained conscious, but the bleeding continued.
The male suspect, pretending to be one of Lee’s supporters, approached the politician asking for an autograph and then carried out the attack with an unidentified weapon approximately 20-30 centimeters in length, according to eyewitnesses.
He was arrested at the scene.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but this is not the first time political violence like this has happened in South Korea. Park Geun-hye was slashed in the face in 2006 and U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert’s face and neck back in 2015. Hopefully the man that committed this latest political violence spends a long time in jail.
Do we know it’s political yet?
The Shinzo Abe assassination was about religion and embezzled real estate.
The Yoon party is already at the political game, accusing Lee of staging this whole thing. Such disgusting people.
Is it political? Aristotle said all of life is politics.
I do notice the chinabot’s standard leftist reaction. Don’t criticize the slasher, go after the political opposition.
Perhaps it was organized by the CCP?
Setnaffa, you know the drill.
When conservatives make a mistake, that’s the story.
When lefties make a mistake, the reaction of the conservatives is the story.
It will be interesting to find out why this guy stabbed him.
Based on our two historical datapoints, it was mental illness rather than politics.
CH, I tend to agree. And still lament that the chinabots are so predictable, lame, and boring.
I’m betting it’s partly because they were never issued reflective belts.
Still, they could fix that with a half pint of blinker fluid, 6 grid squares, 4 chemlight batteries, and 250 yards of flight line.
So a 30cm weapon but only a 1 CM cut? I’ve cut my self shaving worse than that. Seems staged.
Don’t criticize the slasher, go after the political opposition.
Perhaps it was organized by the CCP?
Our resident Russiabot setnaffa is also doing the same thing.
He’s not criticizing the slasher but going after his supposed “political opposition”, the CCP.
But we all know that this is a smokescreen since it is well known that he’s aligned with Russia and China, but don’t want others to notice the obvious.
It is also in setnaffa’s interest to not go after the slasher since Lee is the biggest threat to Yoon remaining in power, and we all know setnaffa doesn’t want to see Yoon step down.
For all we know, setnaffa may be cheering on the slasher.