An “unidentified man” allegedly punched a South Korean diplomat on a Manhattan sidewalk on Wednesday night in New York City, causing the South Korean to suffer a broken nose, the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) reported on Friday.
A South Korean diplomat, who is stationed at South Korea’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations (U.N.), “was punched in the face by an unidentified man in what police described as an ‘unprovoked’ attack at around 8 p.m. on Wednesday near Koreatown in Manhattan,” KBS reported on February 11.
The assailant reportedly fled the scene. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) said Thursday it was probing the incident and had yet to make any arrests in connection with the case.
South Korea’s foreign ministry confirmed the attack on its diplomat in a February 10 statement in which it urged the NYPD to “conduct a quick and thorough…