Lee Jae-myeong, representative of the Democratic Party, speaks at an on-site meeting to protect vulnerable borrowers, small business owners and self-employed people, held at the Self-Employment Support Center in Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi Province on the 8th. /Newsis
The police launched an investigation after an e-mail was sent stating that a bomb would explode in downtown Seoul if the Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myeong was not killed.
According to the police on the 8th, it was confirmed that an e-mail was sent to a Seoul Metropolitan Government employee saying, “If Lee Jae-myung, the representative of the Democratic Party, is not killed by 15:34 on August 9, a bomb will explode within a 334m radius of the library in Seoul.” The 112 Situation Room of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency received this information at around 4:45 pm on the same day.
According to the police, the sender’s domain address of the e-mail was known as ‘.jp’. ‘jp’ is the country domain code for Japan. The mail was sent to the representative address listed on the foreign language website operated by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. The same sender sent a total of two e-mails, the first e-mail was related to CEO Lee Jae-myeong, and the e-mail sent consecutively said that ‘If you do not kill a specific person in Japan, we will blow up major tourist attractions in Japan’.
By 9:25 p.m. on the same day, the police dispatched an explosive ordnance disposal unit (EOD) to the National Assembly Library to detect explosives. Three explosive detection dogs and about 10 police officers searched for it, but they said they could not find anything unusual, such as explosives.
According to the Public Information Bureau of the Democratic Party of Korea, “CEO Lee, who was working at the hall, went home after being guarded by the National Assembly Protection Agency, and refused to be guarded by the police.” .
2023-08-08 12:36:00
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