US envoy to S Korea attacked in Seoul by armed assailant

March 05, 2015 12:12

The US ambassador to South Korea, Mark Lippert, was attacked by an armed assailant at a seminar in central Seoul where he was scheduled to give a lecture Thursday morning.

Television reports from Seoul showed Lippert, a former assistant secretary of defense and adviser to President Obama, bleeding from his head and hand at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, across the road from the US Embassy.

Police said he was attacked with a 10-inch knife. According to reports, the attacker yelled: "No war! The two Koreas should be unified.'

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