A
horrific image has emerged showing the gaping wound
inflicted on the U.S. ambassador to South Korea's face after a furious activist
slashed it open with a knife. Mark Lippert now needs 80 stitches to fix the
damage caused by the attack in broad daylight as he attended a breakfast meeting yesterday morning in Seoul.
According to a
Korean media report, someone yelled 'North Korea and South Korea should be
unified' and 'no to war training!' before the Ambassador left the Sejong
performing-arts centre around 7:40am.
The attacker
slashed the ambassador on the right cheek, left wrist and other parts of his
body, but State Department says the injuries are non-life-threatening and that
he is in stable condition after undergoing minor surgeries at a nearby
hospital.
A 55-year-old
'pro-North Korea activist' name Kim Ki-jong, believed to be the attacker was
however arrested immediately after the attack.
South Korean Prime
Minister, Lee Wan-koo, after the attack said, 'It is regrettable that an
incident like this took place.'
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