south korea ambassador lippert is now wearing a dynamic exoskeletal brace on his hand while he recovers from last month's knife attack mark lippert, 42, suffered deep gashes to his cheek and hand when he was assaulted by knife wielding nationalist kim ki jong at a breakfast function in central seoul last month the envoy required 80 stitches to the wound on his face and two and a half hours of surgery scroll down for video  south korea ambassador lippert is now wearing a dynamic exoskeletal brace on his hand (pictured) while he recovers from last month's knife attack  mark lippert, 42, suffered deep gashes to his cheek and hand when he was assaulted by knife wielding nationalist kim ki jong at a breakfast function in central seoul last month pictured: lippert pictured with the brace with his wife and young baby  the brace was created by seoul’s severance hospital and lippert marveled at how quickly they had constructed it 'it is an amazing apparatus, one i haven't seen before   so innovative and creative,' he wrote on facebook 'it is very comfortable and has made a huge difference in my recovery as i am able to hold things in my hand 'it is very comfortable and has made a huge difference in my recovery as i am able to hold things in my hand he added: 'this is of particular importance when i am walking grigsby, as i often need two hands to manage [his dog] grigsby,' he said  lippert has posted several photos on facebook of him using the device in south korea  he added: 'this is of particular importance when i am walking grigsby, as i often need two hands to manage [his dog] grigsby!' last week south korean prosecutors formally charged the man who injured lippert with attempted murder on wednesday   despite his denials of any intention to kill last week south korean prosecutors formally charged kim ki jong with attempted murder  the prosecutors' office in seoul said kim, was charged with attempted murder, violence against a foreign envoy and obstruction of duty kim, 55, was a known maverick activist who had been handed a two year suspended sentence in 2010 for hurling a rock at the then japanese ambassador to seoul he has denied any intention to kill lippert, but the prosecutors office said in a statement that the crime was clearly deliberate 'there was an intention to murder because (kim) used a lethal weapon in a pre meditated crime to attack the ambassador's face and neck repeatedly,' it said kim has told investigators the ambassador was the 'symbolic' target of his opposition to annual us south korea joint military exercises, which he blames for blocking dialogue with north korea the annual drills have long been condemned by pyongyang as rehearsals for invasion kim insisted he had acted alone and not on the orders of pyongyang, but prosecutors said they were looking into whether he has violated the south's strict national security law banning any act seen as aiding north korea or promoting its ideology investigators have ransacked kim's home as part of an investigation into kim's possible links with north korea kim had visited the north seven times and once tried to erect a memorial in seoul to the late north korean leader kim jong il after his death in 2011 north korea has rejected accusations that it may have been behind the attack as a 'vicious' smear campaign by seoul us ambassador to south korea mark lippert leaves after he was slashed in the face by an assailant at a public forum in central seoul on march 5 
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lippert, 42, suffered deep gashes to his hand when he was assaulted by knife wielding nationalist kim ki jong in central seoul last month . 'it is an amazing apparatus, one i haven't seen before   so innovative and creative,' he wrote on facebook 