Politics
Reduced sentence for defendant in Cheong Wa Dae bomb threat
Aug. 28, 2015
An appeals court on Friday reduced the sentence for the son of a former aide to the parliamentary speaker indicted over threatening to bomb Cheong Wa Dae.The Seoul High Court sentenced the 22-year-old, surnamed Kang, the son of a former aide to National Assembly Speaker Chung Ui-hwa, to six months in prison for calling the presidential office in January to say he was going to bomb the office.He had received an eight-month jail term in a lower court for posting threatening tweets on Twitter, a po