breakfast in seoul. he was slashed on or near his face with some kind of blade, possibly a razor. the suspect in the attack was arrested. he was apparently tackled by audience members who were attending mr. lippert s speech after he attacked the ambassador. media in south korea are reporting that the suspected attacker is an activist against u.s.-south korean military cooperation. he may also be some sort of activist in the unification of south korea and north korea. we do not have a lot of detail on that at this point. after this troubling attack, we re told tonight ambassador mark lippert was rushed to a local hospital. his injuries are said to be nonlife-threatening. joining us now live from seoul is june yun, asia s seoul correspondent. reporter: that s right. mark lippert was injured this morning by an assailant with a razor knife. sustaining injuries to his face and wrist. this happened at 7:40 a.m. local korea time on his way to his
works? works. works! works? works. works. lfr breaking news including the attack mark lippert. ambassador lippert was assaulted with a knife at a breakfast gathering in seoul. it was a ten inch knife. we learned is he having surgery right now. police have a suspect in custody. there s new video of the suspect on the floor. he was attending the breakfast with the ambassador. belongs to the group the ambassador was talking to. paula hancocks joins me again. we understand you have new information about this attacker. that s right.
think really the security has to take a hard look at their how they re going to do these with other countries around the world. dan, particularly given the threat from north korea and the level of tension with north korea, and north korea in the past has sent agents into soublgt to kidnap people in the like. without presidential level security though there s really no way to prevent something somebody getting close. there s not anderson. there s always going to be a balance between access and security, and no security is ever going to be absolute. it s only going to be relative but the guest you just spoke with i agree with his assessment there. i think we re going to have to look at big countries we traditionally consider safe. france south korea. we re going to have to reconsider having an ambassador there alone without a secret
so much breaking news on the attack of the ambassador. now all the talk about transparency and this police department the chief of police to not even show up to the press conference and, you know it s remarkable. stand up and say, you know we have a problem or it s just these people or whatever it is but to not even show up and leave this mayor who is a part-time guy it s remarkable. it s remarkable that people are saying we don t know all the facts. well just look at the over 100 page document. i think wechb a lot of the facts. what about the chief of police? does it surprise anyone that he didn t even show up? where he it does. today then fire three people as though gee, we just found out today? again, i don t know all the facts. we don t know all the facts. even the justice department which is 100 pages long has a lot of anecdotal information. a lot of facts too, neil. unavoidable. the conclusions are unavoidable, and i do think that the idea that today all of a su
u.s.-south korean military cooperation. he may also be some sort of activist in the unification of south korea and north korea. we do not have a lot of detail on that at this point. after this troubling attack we re told tonight ambassador mark lippert was rushed to a local hospital. his injuries are said to be nonlife-threatening. joining us now live from seoul is june yun, asia s seoul correspondent. reporter: that s right. mark lippert was injured this morning by an assailant with a razor knife. sustaining injuries to his face and wrist. this happened at 7:40 a.m. local korea time on his way to his morning lecture. this happened while he was walking to the building when the attack took place. witnesses from the scene are saying that the suspect came from behind and started assaulting him. the audience members stopped the attack and the police immediately arrested the suspect at the scene.