Korean American Man Arrested For Terrorist Attack On Fertility Clinic
Los Angeles’s KTLA news reported that a Korean American man from Seattle has been arrested at New York’s JFK Airport for his role in the terrorist attack on a fertility clinic in California in May 2025.
According to the FBI Los Angeles headquarters, 32-year-old Daniel Jongyon Park was taken into custody on June 3, 2025 (local time). He is being charged with aiding the suicide bomber, 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus, by supplying 270 pounds of ammonium nitrate—an ingredient used in homemade bombs. FBI noted that Park “was in possession of an explosive recipe that was similar to the Oklahoma City bombing.”
The FBI report claimed Park and Bartkus shared the extremist belief that “no human should be born without their explicit consent.” It was also revealed that Park stayed with Bartkus at his home in Twentynine Palms for two weeks earlier this year. During that time, the FBI claimed, the pair allegedly conducted bomb-making experiments in a detached garage. The FBI has officially classified the bombing as a terrorist act.
Bartkus detonated an explosion inside his car, outside the American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic in Palm Springs. The explosion, “the largest bombing scene” the FBI had seen in Southern California in recent years, injured four people and killed Bartkus.
An investigation of Bartkus revealed a recording in which he said:
Basically, I’m anti-life. And IVF is like kind of the epitome of pro-life ideology…
… It just comes down to I am angry that I exist, um, and that, uh, you know, nobody got my consent to bring me here, and I know what you’re gonna say. How could we have got your consent because you didn’t exist, blah, blah, blah…
— Guy Bartkus
After the explosion, Park fled the US and made his way to Denmark and then to Poland. Polish authorities detained and deported Park—and he was arrested in the US. The FBI says Park may have used online forums in an attempt to spread his ideology and recruit others.
Park, an American citizen, if convicted, faces up to 15 years in federal prison. BBC noted that Park did appear in federal court in New York for a brief hearing as of June 4, 2025, wearing a T-shirt that had the words “Fight Like Ukrainians” printed on it and had a large white bandage on his right hand. Park was taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
