The Gwangju Metropolitan City Seobu Police Station said on the 22nd that it arrested a man in his 20s, identified as A, at his home on suspicion of public intimidation for posting a threat claiming that explosives had been installed at the Ministry of National Defense.
According to police, A is suspected of posting on an online community at about 9:30 p.m. on the 21st at a PC café in Seo-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City, with the title, "Explosives have been installed at the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Korea."
A specified the detonation time as 6 p.m. on the 23rd and the location as 22 Itaewon-ro, Yongsan Base, in Yongsan-gu, Seoul. Police conducted a search, but found no items suspected to be explosives.
Police plan to question A about the circumstances of writing the bomb threat post.