Prime Minister's Office: Report on 'Embassy's inspection of Korea-U.S. issue response process' is "different from the facts"

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Sang-hyun = The Prime Minister's Office said on the 10th that the report to the effect that it was examining the process of responding to pending issues between Korea and the United States at the Korean Embassy in the United States was "untrue."

On this day, one media outlet reported that the Office for Government Policy Coordination is conducting a special audit of the Korean Embassy in the United States, and that there is talk of the possibility that it has begun to find out the truth regarding the recent abnormality in Korea-US relations.

In relation to this, the Prime Minister's Office stated in an explanatory material distributed on this day, "The report that the Office for Government Policy Coordination is unusually inspecting the response process of the Embassy in the United States to major issues between Korea and the United States is not true."

He emphasized, "The government joint public service inspection team is conducting periodic overseas inspections to establish public service discipline and manage the service of public officials working overseas."

However, the Prime Minister's Office added, "Please understand that we cannot confirm specific details such as the institutions subject to overseas inspection and the inspection schedule."