article_snippet: The attack Thursday on Mark Lippert, which prompted rival North Korea to gloat about 'knife slashes of justice,' left deep gashes and damaged tendons and nerves.
article_snippet: The attack Thursday on Mark Lippert, which prompted rival North Korea to gloat about 'knife slashes of justice,' left deep gashes and damaged tendons and nerves also raised questions about security in a city normally seen as ultra-safe, despite regular threats of war from Pyongyang.
article_snippet: South and North Korea should be reunified,' he shouted as he slashed Lippert with a 10-inch knife, police and witnesses said.
article_snippet: South Korea state-controlled media crowed Thursday that Kim Ki-jong's 'knife slashes of justice' were 'a deserved punishment on war maniac U.S.' and reflected the South Korean people's protests against U.S. for driving the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war because of the annual military drills with Seoul as a major obstacle to their goal of a unified Korea.