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U.S. Ambassador in South Korea Attacked With Razor by Kim Ki-jong (Video) (Video)
U.S. Ambassador in South Korea Attacked With Razor by Kim Ki-jong
5 Mar 15
This Kim guy told police that he attacked Lippert to protest U.S.-South Korean military drills that started Monday – exercises that the North has long maintained are preparations for an invasion.
The U.S. ambassador to South Korea was slashed in the face and arm by a knife-wielding man early Thursday, officials said.
Mark Lippert was on his way to attend a morning lecture in central Seoul when the attack took place, according to the Yonhap news agency, which published a picture of the envoy bleeding.
Lippert suffered a four-inch-long, one-inch-deep gash down the right side of his face and another cut on his arm, a hospital official said. Lippert underwent a successful three-hour surgery Thursday morning and was in stable condition, Yonsei Severance Hospital chief Chung Nam-sik told reporters.
“Some paralysis of his face and left arm senses are expected and the ambassador is needed to be hospitalized at least three to four days,” Chung said. More
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A knife attack Thursday that injured the U.S. ambassador to South Korea is the latest act of political violence in a deeply divided country where some protesters portray their causes as matters of life and death.
The slashing of Ambassador Mark Lippert’s face and arm, which left deep gashes and damaged tendons and nerves, was an extreme example, but America infuriates some leftist South Koreans because of its role in Korea’s turbulent modern history.
Washington, which backed the South during the 1950-53 Korean War against the communist North, still stations nearly 30,000 troops here and holds annual military drills with Seoul. That’s something anti-U.S. activists view as a major obstacle to their goal of an eventual reunification of the rival Koreas. More
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