▲ South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin speaks to reporters after visiting the Japanese embassy's public information and cultural center in Seoul on July 11, 2022, to mourn the death of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Yonhap)

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S. Korea's foreign minister pays respects to former Prime Minister Abe

SEOUL, July 11 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin paid his respects to former Japanese leader Shinzo Abe on Monday.

He visited the Japanese embassy's public information and cultural center in downtown Seoul, mourned Abe's death and offered his condolences, three days after he was fatally shot during an election campaign speech.

President Yoon Suk-yeol is also scheduled to visit there later this week with a plan to send a delegation led by Prime Minister Han Duck-soo to a formal memorial service for Abe to be held in Japan, according to Yoon's office.

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