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Man Arrested for Brandishing Kitchen Knife in National Assembly Compound


The National Assembly building in Seoul (Image courtesy of Yonhap)

The National Assembly building in Seoul (Image courtesy of Yonhap)

SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire)A drunken man was arrested in the National Assembly compound in the wee hours Tuesday after he trespassed into the compound and then smashed a car window and brandished a kitchen knife toward a policeman.

The man in his 50s, whose identity was withheld, climbed over the wall into the Assembly compound at around 2:20 a.m. and broke a car’s window with the knife and pounded on a window of a guard post, according to police.

The man also brandished the knife at a policeman trying to restrain him, but no one was hurt.

Police plan to look into the motive of the crime and consider seeking a warrant to formally arrest him.

(Yonhap)

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