{"id":13684,"date":"2024-12-11T11:50:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T06:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=13684"},"modified":"2024-12-11T11:50:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T06:05:01","slug":"s-korean-ex-defence-minister-tried-to-kill-himself-prisons-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/s-korean-ex-defence-minister-tried-to-kill-himself-prisons-official\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Korean ex-defence minister tried to kill himself: prisons official"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>South Korea&#8217;s former defence minister tried to kill himself shortly before he was formally arrested over his role in this month&#8217;s martial law operation, a senior prisons official said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on December 3 and sent soldiers and helicopters to parliament but was forced to rescind the decree hours later after lawmakers voted it down.<\/p>\n<p>Defence minister Kim Yong-hyun resigned last Thursday and was formally arrested Tuesday on charges including &#8220;engaging in critical duties during an insurrection&#8221; and &#8220;abuse of authority to obstruct the exercise of rights&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>During a parliamentary hearing, the commissioner general of the Korea Correctional Service said the former minister tried to kill himself minutes before his arrest was announced.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before midnight (1500 GMT Tuesday), &#8220;former Minister of Defence Kim Yong-hyun attempted suicide at the Seoul Dongbu Detention Center,&#8221; said Shin Yong-hae.<\/p>\n<p>Adding that he received the report Wednesday morning, Shin said Kim had tried to kill himself in the toilet using a string from his clothing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A control room staff member intervened, and when they opened the door, he immediately gave up the attempt,&#8221; said Shin.<\/p>\n<p>Shin added that Kim was now under protection in a secure cell and in good health.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The medical examination results indicate that the inmate&#8217;s health status is good without any abnormalities, and he is currently living a normal life in the facility,&#8221; the justice ministry said in a statement sent to AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Kim had issued an apology on Tuesday, saying through his lawyers that &#8220;all responsibility for this situation lies solely with me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He &#8220;deeply apologised&#8221; to the South Korean people and said that his subordinates were &#8220;merely following my orders and fulfilling their assigned duties&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s former defence minister tried to kill himself shortly before he was formally arrested over his role in this month&#8217;s martial law operation, a senior prisons official said Wednesday. President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on December 3 and sent soldiers and helicopters to parliament but was forced to rescind the decree hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13686,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13684\/revisions\/13686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}