All posts tagged "us ambassador"

  • U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert enters Severance Hospital in western Seoul. (Yonhap)
    US Ambassador to S. Korea stable after knife attack

    SEOUL, March 5 (Yonhap) — U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert was in stable condition on Thursday after being cut on the face and wrist by a pro-North Korean activist who said he was against the...

    • Posted March 5, 2015
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  • South Korean men watch a TV news program reporting U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert injured in a knife attack at Seoul railway station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 5, 2015. Lippert was slashed on the face and wrist by a man wielding a weapon with a 10-inch blade and screaming that the rival Koreas should be unified, South Korean police said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    N. Korea applauds attack on US Ambassador to S. Korea

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea hailed a South Korean man’s attack on the U.S. ambassador to Seoul Thursday, saying it was “deserved punishment” for a warmonger such as the United States. The North’s official Korean Central News...

    • Posted March 5, 2015
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