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After the embassy attack in Lybia, Seoul lost track of its envoy

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs belatedly revealed Tuesday it didn’t know the location of its top envoy to Libya following the shocking attack by gunmen on the Korean Embassy in Tripoli on Sunday, which left two local guards dead.

A Foreign Ministry official told reporters on Sunday, after the attack of Korean Embassy by an armed group claiming links to the Islamic State, or ISIS, that Korean Ambassador to Libya Lee Jong-kook was currently in Tunis, Tunisia.

After the embassy attack in Lybia, Seoul lost track of its envoy