In July, the same year, Ikki KITA who was plotting to overturn the Cabinet distributed among political figures a photo of Bokuretsu holding Kaneko on his knees in the interrogation, and the treatment of the two in the prison became a political issue for several months.
同年7月には内閣転覆を狙った北一輝により取調中に朴の膝に金子が座り抱擁している写真が政界にばらまかれ獄内での待遇が数ヶ月政治問題化した。