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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A man who stabbed South Korea’s opposition leader in the neck earlier this year was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday, court officials said.

The knife-wielding man attacked Lee Jae-myung, head of the liberal Democratic Party, South Korea’s biggest political party, in January after approaching him asking for his autograph at an event in the southeastern city of Busan. After being detained by police, he told investigators that he wanted to kill Lee to prevent him from becoming South Korea’s president.

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[-] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

If you see how other similar cases usually go by in South Korea though.. This seems to be more than what usually gets sentenced.

South Korean law is a joke. Forced minor into prostitution? Probation. Attempted rape of a minor? Probation or maybe few months.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Any idea of the recidivism rates vs. us here in the United Prison Industrial Complex of America?

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