article_snippet: Seoul, South Korea (CNN)A man opposed to joint South Korean-U.S. military drills attacked the ambassadorSeoul, slashing his face and arm as his was about to give a speech Thursday morning, authorities said.
article_snippet: This incident is not only a physical attack on the U.S. ambassador," South Korean President Park Geun-hye said, "but an attack on the South Korea-U.S. alliance and the South Korea-U.S. alliance can never be tolerated.
article_snippet: U.S. diplomats have been attacked, killed in past .
article_snippet: For Park's American counterpart, President Barack Obama, the latest attack is personal as well as political.