A group of armed gunmen attacked the South Korean embassy in Tripoli on Sunday, killing two Libyan guards and injuring another officer, Foreign Ministry officials said.
The incident took place at around 1:20 a.m. Libyan time when the assailants fired some 40 shots from a machine gun as they drove by the embassy, an official said.
The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility about two hours later on Twitter, saying it had “removed” two guards at the facility.
The three officers who were affiliated with Libya’s Interior Ministry were sent to a nearby hospital by local residents, but two later died.
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The Obama-Castro meeting was the climax of their surprise announcement on December 17 that, after 18 months of secret negotiations, they would seek to normalize relations between their two nations.
"This is obviously a historic meeting," said Obama, who spoke first after they sat down in polished, wooden chairs for their talks in a blue-carpeted room on the sidelines of the 35-nation Summit of the Americas.
Obama declared that, after 50 years of U.S. policies that had not worked, "it was time for us to try something new."
"We are now in a position to move on a path toward the future," he said, adding that the immediate task was to reopen embassies that shuttered after the 1961 diplomatic break.
Castro cracked a smile when Obama acknowledged that the two sides will continue to have differences on human rights and other issues.
After Obama spoke, the two men stood up and shook hands.
Saying he agreed with everything Obama stated, Castro said the two government can still have differences but "with respect of the ideas of the others."
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