Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, was at the protest site where he was on a hunger strike when a woman in her 50s who allegedly wielded a weapon at the police was arrested.


The Yeongdeungpo Police Station in Seoul arrested Kim Mo (56) on the 16th on charges including obstruction of official duties causing injury. Judge Kim Seong-won of the Seoul Southern District Court issued an arrest warrant, stating there was a risk of flight.


According to the police, on the 14th at 7:52 p.m., Kim was shouting in front of the protest site at the National Assembly main building and refused to comply with the police's request to leave. She is accused of wielding a weapon and injuring two female police officers belonging to the National Assembly Security Unit.


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The two police officers were transported to the hospital, and one officer who sustained a serious arm injury underwent suturing surgery.

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