North Korean state media has praised the attack on U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Mark Lippert, saying it “reflects the mindset of the (South) Korean people.”

“Kim Ki Jong, representative of the Uri Madang, a civic organization demanding peace against war, suddenly stormed with a knife Mark, shouting the south, and the north must be reunified and he is opposed to a war,” the state-run Korean Central News Agency said in its report on the incident.

North Korean state media does not capitalize the first letters of South or North Korea, reflecting the view that they are legitimately one nation.

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