{"id":60910,"date":"2024-01-03T12:58:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T03:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/03\/lee-jae-myung-stabbingsouth-korea-opposition-leader-icu-surgery-hospital-update"},"modified":"2024-01-03T12:58:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T03:58:55","slug":"south-korea-opposition-leader-in-icu-after-stabbing-raises-questions-over-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60910","title":{"rendered":"South Korea opposition leader in ICU after stabbing raises questions over security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic party leader Lee Jae-myung underwent surgery for more than two hours to repair a major blood vessel, following the attack<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s opposition leader Lee Jae-myung remained hospitalised in intensive care on Wednesday, one day after he was stabbed in an attack that shocked the country and launched calls for better protection for politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Surgeons operated on Lee for more than two hours to repair a major blood vessel in his neck that was sliced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/02\/lee-jae-myung-stabbed-south-korea-opposition-leader-busan-local-media-reports\">when an assailant lunged and stabbed him with a knife<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/03\/lee-jae-myung-stabbingsouth-korea-opposition-leader-icu-surgery-hospital-update\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic party leader Lee Jae-myung underwent surgery for more than two hours to repair a major blood vessel, following the attackSouth Korea\u2019s opposition leader Lee Jae-myung remained hospitalised in intensive care on Wednesday, one day after he was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60911,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60910\/revisions\/60911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}