South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has called an attack by a minor against a ruling party lawmaker this week an act of “terrorism,” his office said yesterday.
South Korean Representative Bae Hyun-jin, 40, was attacked on Thursday by a minor who repeatedly struck her on the back of the head with a rock in Seoul’s Gangnam District. She has since been hospitalized and is recovering, after medical staff used a stapler to perform two sutures to treat a non-life-threatening, 1cm scalp injury, doctors who treated her said.
Police have identified the assailant as a 15-year-old, Yonhap news agency reported.
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He was ordered hospitalized for observation yesterday morning, Yonhap said.
The attack came just weeks after opposition party leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck while talking to reporters in the port city of Busan.
“The terrorism against politicians, who are representatives of the people, is no different from terrorism against the people,” senior presidential secretary for political affairs Han O-sub quoted Yoon as saying.
Yoon’s remarks came a day after both the ruling People Power Party and opposition Democratic Party characterized the incident as an act of “political terrorism.”
South Korea is gearing up for a crucial election on April 10, in which Yoon’s conservative party aims to regain a parliamentary majority for the first time since 2016.
Police have said that the stabbing of opposition leader Lee was meticulously planned by a well-prepared assailant who “wanted to prevent the politician from becoming president.”
Lee underwent surgery after he was stabbed on Jan. 2 and returned to work about two weeks later.
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