U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert needed 80 stitches to his face after being slashed by a North Korea sympathizer demanding an end to joint U.S.-South Korea military drills.
“Heaven and God saved the ambassador,” Lew Dae Hyun, a plastic surgeon at Yonsei University’s Severance Hospital, said at a televised press briefing after the operation. “His main nerves and salivary glands were missed and there should be no problem functionally.”
