Korean Prosecutors Seek to Arrest Anti-Government Protest Leader

I do not support aggression against South Korea’s riot police, especially since many of them are mandatory service conscripts. With that said the protests against the Moon administration are nothing like the violent protests we have seen Korean leftists commit in the past with little to no consequences:

State prosecutors on Friday sought a court warrant to arrest a conservative pastor for his alleged role in a violent anti-government protest.

Rev. Jun Kwang-hoon, chief of the Christian Council of Korea, led a mass rally in central Seoul on Oct. 3 calling for the resignations of a scandal-ridden justice minister and President Moon Jae-in.

Police have investigated the pastor, also chief of a coalition of conservative groups which organized the rally, on suspicions that he instigated protesters to use violence against police when they marched toward the adjacent presidential office.

Prosecutors requested a Seoul court issue arrest warrants for Jun and two other protest leaders on charges including obstruction of justice and breaching assembly and demonstration laws, according to legal sources with knowledge of the matter.

Hundreds of thousands participated in the rally in Gwanghwamun, central Seoul. Speakers on stage shouted radical phrases such as “Seize the Blue House” and “Arrest the president.”

Joong Ang Ilbo

You can read more at the link, but when the Korean government did arrest a violent left wing KCTU protester last year they ended up letting him go. It will be interesting to see if the Korean courts do the same thing with this pastor.