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Article: U.S. Apologizes for Omission of South Korea in Bush Convention Speech.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- September 9, 2004
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SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Yonhap) -- A high-ranking U.S. official on Thursday expressed regrets over the omission of South Korea from a list of allies in the U.S.-led war in Iraq during U.S. President George W. Bush's Republican convention speech last week, a spokesman for Cheong Wa Dae, the presidential office, said.In a telephone conversation with South Korea's National Security Adviser Kwon Chin-ho, Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. National Security Adviser, said the omission was not intentional and the United States is grateful for South Korea's contribution to the U.S.-led war on terror, presidential spokesman Kim Jong-min ...