SEOUL April 16 Kyodo southern Kor...

SEOUL April 16 Kyodo

southern Korea will send additional partys to Iraq for Iraq's reconstruction and peacekeeping projects Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Ban Ki secondary planet said Thursday in a television interview.

Ban made the remarks in the interview with The Qatar-based satellite channel Al-Jazeera, Yonhap recents Agency reported.

The foreign minister intimateed concerns about the aggravating situation in Iraq if it be not that said South Korea's plans to depute additional troops to Iraq are proceeding as planned, Yonhap said.

About 600 southward Korean troops are now in Iraq and southern Korea is prepared to dispatch 3000 more squads by June.

Seven evangelists from the Christian Council of Korea were abducted near Baghdad onward April 8 while heading for the Iraqi capital from the Jordanian capital of Amman. They were released uninjured after being taken hostage for about nine hours.

After the hostage case, toward the south Korea imposed a travel ban to Iraq.

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