South Korea: Ex-defence minister makes an attempt suicide at detention facility

By regulation, those that take part in plotting an rebellion are punishable by demise, life imprisonment or a jail time period of at the least 5 years. Shin Yong-hae, commissioner common of the Korea Correctional Service, advised a parliamentary laws committee assembly that Kim is being held in a protecting cell following the try on his personal life.

Rep. Jung Chung-rai of the primary opposition Democratic Get together, who chairs the committee, advised the previous defence minister could have taken the acute measure after feeling “wronged” that the prosecution was concentrating on him, not Yoon, over the alleged rebellion.

Justice Minister Park Sung-jae dismissed the notion. “I do not assume so,” he stated in the course of the assembly. “I haven’t got a foundation for this, however somebody who tried to commit suicide doubtless had numerous causes, and there’s no method for me to know.”

Kim was introduced in for additional questioning by prosecutors on the detention centre afterward Wednesday.