US AMBASSADOR TO SKOREA SLASHED ON FACE AND WRIST IN ATTACK

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AP:

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- U.S. Ambassador Mark 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 Thursday.

 

Media images showed a stunned-looking Lippert staring at his blood-covered left hand and holding his right hand over a cut on the right side of his face, his pink tie splattered with blood.

 

The U.S. State Department condemned the attack, which happened at a performing arts center in downtown Seoul as the ambassador was preparing for a lecture, and said Lippert was being treated at a local hospital and his injuries weren't life threatening.

 

YTN TV reported that the suspect - identified by police as a 55-year-old, surnamed Kim - screamed during the attack, "South and North Korea should be reunified." A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still happening, said the suspect in 2010 threw a piece of concrete at the Japanese ambassador in Seoul.

 

The suspect shouted anti-war slogans after he was detained Thursday.

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