North Korea: knife attack on US ambassador was 'expression of resistance'
Source: Theguardian
Chung Nam-sik, a doctor at Yonsei University’s Severance hospital, said the surgery had been “very successful”. He said Lippert had also sustained a cut to his left arm, damaging nerves connected to his little finger and tendons connected to his thumb, and might experience sensory problems in the hand for several months.
The attacker was wrestled to the ground after lunging at Lippert with a fruit knife at a forum at the Sejong Cultural Institute, across the road from the US embassy. He loudly demanded the reunification of the Korean peninsula and condemned joint military exercises currently being held between the US and South Korea. “I carried out an act of terror,” he shouted as he was pinned to the floor.
South Korean media said Kim, 55, was an anti-US and Japan activist. In 1985 he was part of a group that slashed and burned the US flag on the embassy grounds. He has also held one-man protests against Japanese claims to the Takeshima islands, known in Korea as Dokdo, which are administered by Seoul.
In 2010, he received a three-year suspended prison sentence after throwing a piece of concrete at the Japanese ambassador to Seoul. In 2007, Kim reportedly tried to set himself on fire with petrol while protesting in front of the presidential Blue House, demanding a government investigation into an alleged 1988 rape in Kim’s office, according to news reports.
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