South Korea opposition chief's attacker wanted to prevent rise to power

South Korean police said Wednesday that a man who stabbed opposition leader Lee Jae Myung earlier this month has claimed he tried to kill Lee so that he could not become president of the country in the future.According to the police in Busan, where the stabbing took place on Jan. 2, the 67-year-old man has said he also wanted to prevent Lee's main opposition Democratic Party from winning in the general election scheduled in April by killing him.Lee was stabbed in the neck in the southern port city and was taken to a local hospital before being transferred by helicopter to another hospital i…READ FULL ARTICLE