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Article: Poor Foreign Ministry!
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- April 20, 2005
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(EDITORIAL from the Chosun Ilbo on April 20)The Foreign Ministry's public relations officer on Monday called on journalists to make it clear that there is no pro-American faction in the ministry. The minister sent a letter of protest to a press outlet that reported a ministry official as calling "hypocrisy" the president's new foreign policy doctrine casting Korea in a balancing role in Northeast Asia. In a bid to identify the official who made the comment, the ministry questioned all senior officials above the rank of department head. Meanwhile, a presidential spokesperson explained that by pro-American Koreans the president meant Koreans who are fluent in ...