All posts tagged "mark lippert"

  • Lippert work
    Injured US Ambassador Lippert returns to work

    SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) — U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Mark Lippert, recently injured in an attack by a knife-wielding assailant, said Thursday he returned to work following a two-week absence. Lippert took to Twitter to announce his...

    • Posted March 19, 2015
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  • South Korea Ambassador Hurt
    Lippert’s attacker contacted convicted N. Korean spy beforehand: police

    SEOUL, March 13 (Yonhap) — The suspected attacker of the top U.S. envoy in Seoul contacted a South Korean man previously convicted of spying for North Korea before carrying out the attack, police said Friday. Kim Ki-jong...

    • Posted March 13, 2015
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  • Lippert Released
    US Ambassador to Seoul leaves hospital after attack, feeling ‘darn good’

    SEOUL, March 10 (Yonhap) — U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert was released from a Seoul hospital on Tuesday, five days after he was knifed by a South Korean nationalist, saying he felt “darn good.” Speaking...

    • Posted March 10, 2015
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  • Mark-Park1
    Park makes surprise visit to hospitalized US envoy

    SEOUL, March 9 (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye on Monday made a surprise visit to the hospital where the top U.S. envoy has been recovering from wounds he sustained in a knife attack last week. The visit...

    • Posted March 9, 2015
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    S. Koreans show outpouring of support for injured US ambassador

    By Kim Bo-eun U.S. Ambassador to Korea Mark Lippert was the subject of an outpouring of support and concern after he was attacked by a knife-wielding radical activist. Lippert’s official blog (lippertsinkorea.blogspot.com) was filled with numerous messages...

    • Posted March 5, 2015
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  • U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert  enters  Severance Hospital in western Seoul. (Yonhap)
    US Ambassador to S. Korea stable after knife attack

    SEOUL, March 5 (Yonhap) — U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert was in stable condition on Thursday after being cut on the face and wrist by a pro-North Korean activist who said he was against the...

    • Posted March 5, 2015
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  • South Korean men watch a TV news program reporting U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert injured in a knife attack at Seoul railway station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 5, 2015. 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. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    N. Korea applauds attack on US Ambassador to S. Korea

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea hailed a South Korean man’s attack on the U.S. ambassador to Seoul Thursday, saying it was “deserved punishment” for a warmonger such as the United States. The North’s official Korean Central News...

    • Posted March 5, 2015
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