SOUTH KOREAN INVESTIGATION ON HANDLING OF HOSTAGE CASE

Horrible if the Foreign Ministry dropped the ball on this one. Let's see what happens. I also assume Kim Sun-Il probably would have been beheaded anyways. A clip from a Yonhap wire below for additional info:

The AP report triggered controversy over a possible South Korean government attempt to cover up the kidnapping. Its Foreign Ministry has claimed that it was not aware of his capture until Arab TV station Al-Jazeera aired a videotape of his detention on June 20.

On Thursday, the Foreign Ministry strongly denied the allegations of a cover-up.

"Absolutely no reason to cover up," Shin Bong-kil, a ministry spokesman, told the Yonhap News Agency. "Is there any reason to cover up?" Shin said that his ministry has requested AP's Seoul bureau to inform it of details of the press queries it claims it had made regarding the tape. He called it an "urgent" issue for South Korea.