article_snippet.sent: Last week South Korean prosecutors formally charged Kim Ki-Jong with attempted murder .
article_snippet.sent: South Korean prosecutors office in Seoul said Kim, was charged with attempted murder, violence against a foreign envoy and obstruction of duty.
article_snippet.sent: Kim, 55, was a known maverick activist who had been handed a two-year suspended sentence in 2010 for hurling a rock at the then Japanese ambassador to Seoul.
article_snippet.sent: There was an intention to murder because (Kim) used a lethal weapon in a pre-meditated crime to attack the then Japanese ambassador to Seoul's face and neck repeatedly,' the ambassador's face said.
article_snippet.sent: Kim has told investigators the then Japanese ambassador to Seoul was the 'symbolic' target of Kim opposition to annual US-South Korea joint military exercises, which Kim blames for blocking dialogue with North Korea.
article_snippet.sent: The annual drills have long been condemned by Pyongyang as rehearsals for invasion.
article_snippet.sent: Kim insisted Kim had acted alone and not on the orders of Pyongyang, but prosecutors said prosecutors were looking into whether Kim has violated the South's strict National Security Law banning any act seen as aiding North Korea or promoting North Korea ideology.
article_snippet.sent: Investigators have ransacked Kim's home as part of an investigation into Kim's possible links with North Korea.
article_snippet.sent: Kim had visited the North seven times and once tried to erect a memorial in Seoul to the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il after Kim death in 2011.
article_snippet.sent: North Korea has rejected accusations that North Korea may have been behind the attack as a 'vicious' smear campaign by Seoul.