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The US ambassador to South Korea was attacked by a Korean nationalist during a breakfast meeting in Seoul.
Mark Lippert was left covered in blood after he was attacked by a Korean nationalist at the breakfast meeting in Seoul.
Pictures show the 42-year-old bleeding heavily from his face and wrists and holding his face.
The attacker was caught and named by police as 55-year-old Kim Ki-jong. He was dressed in traditional Korean clothing and shouted that North and South Korea should be reunited just before he attacked Lippert.
He also shouted that he opposed "war exercises", a reference to annual joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises that began this week.
"I carried out an act of terror," Kim shouted as he was pinned to the floor by event attendees
Doctors said later that Lippert's condition was stable after "very successful" surgery lasting two-and-a-half hours that required 80 stitches in his face.
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