S. Korea’s Yoo Offers to Resign Over Foot-and-Mouth

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South Korea’s farm minister said that he’ll quit his post to take responsibility for the nation’s worst outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, offering to resign after the outbreak is brought under control.

“I apologize to the nation as well as livestock farmers for the damage caused by the foot-and-mouth disease,” Yoo Jeong Bok, minister for food, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, said in an e-mailed statement today.