
American Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert has been released from the hospital Tuesday after a violent knife attack by a pro-North Korean nationalist. During his stay in the hospital, Lippert received a near-universal outpouring of support from South Koreans grateful for the U.S. partnership–support The New York Times claims, based on the words of two bloggers, “has provoked a backlash” among leftist South Koreans.
by Frances Martel10 Mar 2015, 8:03 AM PST0

Two days before Mark Lippert, the U.S. ambassador to South Korea, was attacked by an enigmatic knife-wielding crackpot named Kim Ki-Jong and slashed in the face, North Korea was promising “merciless strikes” against America and South Korea, and warning that “the situation on the Korean peninsula is again inching close to the brink of a war.”
by John Hayward5 Mar 2015, 2:23 PM PST0

The North Korean government wasted no time celebrating the act of terrorist Kim Ki Jong, who assaulted U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert in Seoul yesterday with what is being described as a “fruit knife.” North Korean state-run Korean Central News Agency declared the attack “just punishment for U.S. warmongers.”
by Frances Martel5 Mar 2015, 7:29 AM PST0

South Korean media say U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert has been attacked while giving a lecture and taken to a hospital for treatment.
by Breitbart News4 Mar 2015, 3:29 PM PST0