Graphic Image; U.S. Ambassador To South Korea (Seoul) Wounded By Assailant

Washington Post; The U.S. 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 U.S. 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.”

Yonhap News Agency reported that Lippert was bleeding heavily and was taken to a nearby hospital. An embassy spokesman said that Lippert was in a stable condition. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said the ambassador’s injuries were not life-threatening. “We strongly condemn this act of violence,” she said in a statement. Obama called Lippert to “wish him the very best for a speedy recovery, ” National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said.

Yonhap reported that the assailant, identified as Kim Ki-jong, 55, was immediately apprehended. He is a member of the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation, which organized the seminar, police said. Kim grabbed Lippert as the ambassador was about to eat breakfast and slashed at him about three times toward the right side of his face and his left wrist, reports said... READ MORE HERE;Washibgton Post 

Picture credit; Daily Mail.