A series of terrorist threatening emails from Japan...Police "International Cooperation Investigation"

Police have said they will launch an international cooperation investigation amid a series of terrorist threat emails impersonating a Japanese lawyer.

Police officials said they will seek cooperation from Japanese police through Interpol, while also conducting international criminal justice cooperation through diplomatic channels.

Earlier on the 30th of last month, the Ministry of Justice received an e-mail from Japan stating that they were responsible for the Jeju Air accident and that they would set off high-performance bombs in various places in downtown Korea.

On the 2nd, a fax was sent to the People's Power Party and the floor leader Kwon Sung-dong's office that they had installed explosives, which was also in the name of a Japanese lawyer.

The police suspect that the same person who sent terror threats e-mails to major domestic organizations and Democratic Party Chairman Lee Jae-myung since 2023.

Meanwhile, the police arrested one author in his 30s who wrote malicious posts about the victims of the Jeju Air disaster and the bereaved families, and are investigating 126 such malicious posts.