All posts tagged "Kim ki-jong"

  • Kim Ki-jong
    US envoy attacker gets additional 18 months for assaulting prison staff

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — A local court on Wednesday sentenced the 56-year-old man, who attacked the top U.S. envoy to South Korea last year, to an additional 18 months in prison for assaulting prison staff. The Seoul Central...

    • Posted March 23, 2016
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  • A suspect, identified by police as 55-year-old Kim Ki-jong, is carried on a stretcher off an ambulance as he arrives at a hospital in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 5, 2015. Lippert was in stable condition after a man screaming demands for a unified North and South Korea slashed him on the face and wrist with a knife, South Korean police and U.S. officials said Thursday.(AP Photo/Yonhap, Han Jong-chan)
    South Korean man gets 12 years for slashing US ambassador

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A Seoul court on Friday handed a 12-year prison sentence to a South Korean man who slashed and seriously injured the U.S. ambassador during a March forum. Kim Ki-jong was convicted of...

    • Posted September 11, 2015
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  • Kim Ki-jong
    Who is this man who attacked US ambassador?

    By Lee Min-hyung 55-year-old suspect Kim Ki-jong slashed U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert’s left wrist and face with a knife at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Seoul, Thusday. He was immediately arrested on the...

    • Posted March 5, 2015
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