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U.S. Envoy to Seoul Lippert Injured in Attack by Armed Assailant
Article, # 16 , # 35.
Thanks again, Maggie.
Posted on 03/04/2015 3:18:41 PM PST by kristinn
North Korean agent or a “progressive” South Korean?
U.S.-South Korea exercises ongoing, and the Nork’s Ding Bat Gai (aka, fat hand grenade w/ a bad haircut) has gotten his panties in a wad, more so than usual for Kim family scumbags. I’ll wager the attack on the U.S. ambassador is related.
Maybe it was caused by a youtube video. Let’s check with Susan Rice.
The Daily Mail is reporting that the arrested assailant is a Korean national who attacked a Japanese official in 2010.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2980097/SKorean-media-say-US-ambassador-attacked-hurt.html
Strategic patience brothers and sisters, have another toke and practice strategic patience.
What difference does it make? Cummon pass that toke over here.
Sounds like he got the direct commission just to pad his resume as an Obama advisor. I can’t imagine he did anything useful for the SEALs. I hope he didn’t get any of them killed.
Could we please know the motivation of the attacker?
Thanks, media. Without spin. Nor lies. That’s all we ask.
Caused by another you tube video?
Caused by another you tube video?Did that guy ever get out of jail?
Remember Ambassador Stevens. He was sexually mutilates before he bled to death. But we had rescue “Stand Down” . When you have no respect fpr America— you have no for her ambassadors. Bring em all home. Close the borders.
According to South Korean police and media the men was wielding a razor blade and screaming that the rival Koreas should be unified.
Although that was the topic of the lecture he was heading towards, which may explain the timing of this particular attack, I personally don’t think that the US being in Korea has anything to do with a reunification problem.
I don’t like the style of his tie.
Police tell @ABC US ambassador to #ROK, Mark Lippert, attacked not with razor blade, but 10 inch fruit knife!
Obama Confidant To Be Next Ambassador To South Korea
04.30.14
One of Obama’s longest serving foreign policy advisors, now a top Pentagon official, is set to be named U.S. Ambassador to South Korea
President Obama will name Mark Lippert, an advisor and friend dating back to his time in the Senate, as the next U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, two senior administration officials told The Daily Beast.
Mark Lippert currently serves as chief of staff to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. Obama will announce as soon as Thursday that he is nominating Lippert to replace Sung Kim as America’s top diplomat in South Korea, the officials said. The nomination comes at a tense time on the Korean peninsula, with North Korea threatening further provocations including a possible fourth nuclear test.
Lippert is one of Obama’s oldest and closest advisors on foreign policy, having served in Obama’s Senate office and then as a top advisor in Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Lippert was the National Security Council Chief of Staff, a position resurrected by the Obama White House in 2009 for 10 months, until he was pushed out by then National Security Advisor Jim Jones, who accused Lippert of being responsible for leaks to the media that revealed Jones’ mismanagement of the NSC.
Lippert spent some time deployed abroad as a Naval Reserve intelligence officer before returning to the Obama administration in 2011 as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Affairs. Sen. John McCain held Lippert’s nomination for months, demanding an explanation of the Lippert-Jones feud, but eventually relented and let the nomination go through
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The Aide Who Went To War - How a year in Iraq changed an Obama adviser
Newsweek - July 28, 2008
Author: Richard Wolffe
Mark Lippert is hardly the kind of man most people would expect to find as Barack Obama’s longest-serving foreign-policy adviser. The buzz-cut Navy reservist has just returned to his civilian job at the senator’s office after a year’s deployment in Iraq. His boss may have made his name with his antiwar stance, but Lippert has spent far more time on the ground in Iraq than most of Obama’s right-wing critics ever will.
Until Obama launched his presidential campaign, Lippert was his only senior foreign-policy aide. Now the presumptive Democratic nominee has more than 300 experts advising him on foreign affairs, organized into roughly 20 specialized groups and weighing in on every conceivable issue. The top ranks include two veterans of the Clinton administration: former assistant secretary of State Susan Rice and former national-security adviser Tony Lake. But day-to-day, Obama relies on two key aides. One is Denis McDonough, a former Capitol Hill staffer based at Obama’s campaign HQ in Chicago. The other is Lippert.
The candidate’s staff is facing its toughest challenge yet in this week’s voyage overseas to the Middle East and Europe. It’s an extraordinarily public test of a presidential contender’s mastery of world affairs, and behind-the-scenes preparations have been intense. But if Lippert is worried, he’s not letting it show. Like the rest of the team, Lippert prides himself on staying flexible. Back when Obama and Lippert had more free time, they liked to play basketball together. Lippert says as a Senate aide he was like a point guard, passing the ball to outside experts like GOP Sen. Dick Lugar and former NATO commander Gen. James Jones. “There’s no pretense with Mark,” says Rice. “He’s down-to-earth and very much a pragmatist. He’s like Senator Obama—not an ideologue, but a ‘how do we get things done’ kind of guy.”
As a kid, Lippert wanted to be an armed forces officer. He never outgrew that ambition, even after earning an international-relations degree at Stanford and taking a job on Capitol Hill. Joining the Navy Reserves as an intelligence officer and going to Iraq helped to reconcile the old dream with his career as a congressional staffer. “I was proud to do it, in a very cornball way,” Lippert says, although he hated to go just when Obama’s campaign was taking off. “It’s tough,” says Lippert. “You have to leave him right at the time when … you kind of want to rally around him.”
He won’t say where he went in Iraq or precisely what he did there, except that he worked with Navy SEALs. But he readily admits he faced little physical danger: “I had no mishaps, other than cutting my hand on a cracked crab in the dining hall.” Still, he believes the experience has changed his approach to policy. “I think you recognize that when you work in the Senate, you work at the strategic level. And I was [in Iraq] at a very tactical level,” he says. “It would be naive if I came back and said I have the answer. But what it did do was give me a sense of more personal investment in the place. I’m still very much grappling with it.”
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The assailant reportedly shouted "South and North Korea should be reunified!" before lashing out at the envoy.
The attacker also expressed his opposition to annual military exercises held jointly by South Korea and the US, which are currently under way.
North Korea has described the exercises - which involve more than 200,000 troops - as a rehearsal for an invasion and has vowed retaliation.
However, there is no evidence that the attacker was an agent of North Korea, the BBC's Stephen Evans in Seoul reports.
Many South Koreans believe that the American military presence prevents unification of the two Koreas, our correspondent adds.
The assailant had previously thrown concrete at the Japanese ambassador to South Korea. He also has a record of militant Korean nationalistic activism.
US President Barack Obama later called Mr. Lippert to wish him "the very best for a speedy recovery", US National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said.
Meanwhile, the US state department said: "We strongly condemn this act of violence."
Mr. Lippert - a former US assistant secretary of defence - was appointed ambassador to South Korea in 2014.
U.S. Envoy to Seoul Lippert Injured in Attack by Armed Assailant
Article, # 16 , # 35.
Thanks again, Maggie.
“Many South Koreans believe that the American military presence prevents unification of the two Koreas,”
BS!
That’s what their communist professors teach them.
I have no doubt of this. We have a similar infestation.
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