Teenagers who posted a threat on an online community to kill President Lee Jae-myung have been handed over to prosecutors.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said on the 24th that it referred two teens to the prosecution on charges of obstructing official duties by threat and deception. They are accused of posting on the 119 Safety Reporting Center's bulletin board on Sept. 4 last year a message indicating they would kill the president.
Among the suspects, boy A is also accused of writing a murder threat against students at a high school in Asan, South Chungcheong, in March last year (public intimidation and obstruction of official duties by deception).
Boy A is also under investigation on suspicion of posting murder threats against students at a high school in Incheon and a middle school in Gwangju.
Suspect boy B has already been arrested and put on trial on charges of writing bomb threat posts targeting six locations, including KT headquarters and a broadcaster's Gangnam Station site.
Boys A and B are said to have met on the voice messenger platform "Discord."
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency also decided to review filing a damages claim against the suspects. An official at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said, "We will continue to track down threats targeting unspecified people to the end and punish them strictly according to the law."