as you were saying i think i interrupted you, the ambassador in the video that we see of him, he is basically holding up a trish or something to his face to try to stop the bleeding. he was taken to the hospital obviously. that s right. yes. police said he was attacked by this knife on his right cheek. his hand you can see him holding a tissue to his cheek. the embassy spokesman said, obviously, he is not life-threatening. he is in a stable condition. you can see him being guided. he is walking, and he is talking at that point as well so certainly they re hoping that these injuries are not particularly severe. obviously, everyone is quite shocked. it s the first time a u.s. ambassador to seoul has been attacked. remember back in 2006 when she was attacked with a knife. herself as well she had a slash across her cheek at a public
at a breakfast meeting in seoul. police do have a suspect in custody. they say he was actually dining at the event with the ambassador. he was a member of the group that the ambassador was talking to. the ambassador was taken to the hospital where he is being treated for nonlife-threatening injuries. just moments ago we got new information on that. we ll go back to paul hancocks in seoul. what have you learned? well, we know that straight after this attack the ambassador was taken to a local hospital just about half an hour ago. we understand he was transferred to a larger hospital severance hospital here in seoul. we re being told by that hospital he is currently in surgery. they don t have details of his condition at this point. they say they re waiting for the end of the surgery to give us any kind of information. we also know from police that the attacker himself who is likely injured, we understand that he had a fracture. we re not saying where that fracture was, but at this poi
according to the police this happened just as ambassador lippert was about to start eating. the attacker was sitting at the table next to him. now, this briefing this morning was actually for reunification of the two koreas. it was a group that s pushing for this and this attacker was a member of this group. so he is not an unknown. we know that just as the ambassador was about to start eating he attacked him with a small knife. earlier it was believed to be a razor blade. police have corrected that. he is in his 50s. he does have a previous criminal record but he was able to be within that breakfast meeting, and that close to the ambassador. do we know much about the ambassador was then rushed to the hospital. stroo do we know much about the security surrounding the ambassador? what s it typically like at an event like this? well, the police have told us about security here. they say there was 25 police officers outside the event. this was an art center where