
Ambassador to Ukraine Park Ki-chang, who was summoned due to the conflict with Ukraine, did not appear at the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee audit, and Ambassador to Russia Lee Seok-bae attended virtually due to the closure of Moscow Airport.
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Ambassador to Ukraine Park Ki-chang returned to Korea on the 10th after being recalled due to a conflict related to North Korean prisoners of war.
(Warsaw = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Gye-yeon = Ambassador to Ukraine Park Ki-chang, who was summoned after a diplomatic conflict with Ukraine, failed to appear at the National Assembly Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee's state affairs audit of the Embassy in Ukraine on the 18th (local time).
According to diplomatic authorities, Ji-wan Yoon, deputy chief of mission at the Ukrainian embassy, attended the government inspection of the embassies of Poland, Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus held at the embassy in Poland on this day as an acting ambassador.
Acting Ambassador Yoon is scheduled to receive a government audit via video from the Embassy in Ukraine.
Ambassador Park returned to Korea on the 10th after being summoned in the aftermath of the conflict between the two countries that arose after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed that North Korean prisoners of war had been sent to South Korea last month.
Lee Seok-bae, Ambassador to Russia, is also scheduled to attend the National Assembly inspection today, inevitably via video conference, due to the war between Russia and Ukraine.
A diplomatic official said Ambassador Lee was unable to move to the Polish Embassy, the site of the inspection, because the Moscow airport was closed due to a drone attack by the Ukrainian military.

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