North Korea: US ambassador knife attack was 'expression of resistance'
Source: The Guardian
North Korea: US ambassador knife attack was 'expression of resistance'
Justin McCurry in Tokyo
Thursday 5 March 2015 11.50 GMT
North Korea has described a knife attack that left the US ambassador in Seoul with a 11cm-long facial wound as just punishment for joint US-South Korea military drills.
A political extremist with a history of violence, named by police as Kim Ki-jong, attacked Mark Lippert during an event in Seoul on Thursday morning.
Lippert received 80 stitches during two and a half hours of surgery and will remain under observation in hospital for at least three days, his doctors said.
The US and South Korea condemned the attack, but North Koreas official KCNA news agency described it as a valid expression of resistance. A brief statement referred to the weapon used to slash Lippert as the knife of justice.
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