According to the latest CCTV news report, on the morning of January 2, when Lee Jae-myung, the leader of South Korea's largest opposition party, went to Busan, South Korea to attend an event, a man squeezed through the crowd and stabbed Lee Jae-myung in the neck with a sharp knife, Lee Jae-myung bled and fell to the ground, and was then sent to the hospital for first aid.
South Korea** said that Lee Jae-myung's neck wound was 1 centimeter deep and did not hurt an artery, but the jugular vein was damaged and he was urgently transferred to Seoul National University Hospital for surgery. The latest news also said that Lee Jae-myung is currently conscious and not in danger of life.
According to the scene, the man was in his sixties, wearing a blue paper crown, and had shouted to Lee Jae-ming for an autograph before the incident in order to get close to Lee Jae-myung. When he got closer, the man stabbed Lee in the neck with a 30-centimeter-long knife. Subsequently, the man was arrested on the spot.
Originally, Lee Jae-myung was going to visit Moon Jae-in, the former ** of South Korea, on the same day, but it had to be canceled due to the attack.
Later, South Korea's ** Yoon Suk-yeol said that the attack on Lee Jae-myung was an act of violence that South Korean society could not tolerate, and he hoped that ** would quickly investigate the truth of the incident and do his best to save Lee Jae-myung.
However, so far, we don't know exactly why the ** man assassinated Lee Jae-myung.