'Bomb Terror' Threats Too
The police have launched an investigation after receiving a report that an email claiming responsibility for the Jeju Air passenger plane disaster was sent.
According to the Cyber Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on the 30th, at around 8:50 a.m. that day, an employee affiliated with the Ministry of Justice reported to the police that they had received an email claiming responsibility for the Jeju Air accident.
The email reportedly also included a threat to detonate bombs in various parts of the country's urban areas on the night of the 31st. The sender used the Japanese name "Karasawa Takahiro" and the message was written in Japanese and English.
This name is the same as the sender of a Japan-originated terror threat email from last August, which threatened to bomb major facilities in South Korea.
At that time, a lawyer whose real name is Karasawa Takahiro suggested on social media (SNS) that "my name seems to be used without permission," raising the possibility that it was the act of extremists. Terror threat messages under the name of lawyer Karasawa have reportedly occurred over hundreds of thousands of times in Japan since 2016.
The Cyber Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency is currently conducting a combined investigation with previous cases, considering the possibility that the email reported this time was sent by the same perpetrator.
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