Man who stabbed South Korea's opposition leader Lee Jae-myung jailed

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The stabbing took place ahead of South Korea's parliamentary elections in April - with a court verdict describing the attack as a 'grave challenge' to the country's election systems.

A man who stabbed South Korea's opposition leader in the neck because he didn't want him to become president has been jailed for 15 years, according to court officials. The attacker, who has been identified only by his surname Kim, targeted Lee Jae-myung after approaching him for an autograph in the southeastern city of Busan in January.

A court verdict called the attack 'a grave challenge' to the country's election systems and an act that 'significantly destroys social consensus and confidence on the basic liberal democratic principles,' according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency Read more from Sky News:Lucy Letby sentenced to another whole life term'Jay Slater's family can use their own search teams' It cited the verdict as saying the attacker had long loathed Mr Lee because of...

 

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