P.M. Chung expected to offer resignation

Prime Minister Chung Un-chan was expected to tender his resignation to President Lee Myung-bak soon, taking responsibility for the failure to secure parliamentary approval for the contentious Sejong City revision bill.

Ever since saying last week that he would take complete responsibility for it, speculation has been rampant that he would offer to resign after Lee arrived in Seoul on Saturday from his weeklong trip to Canada, Panama and Mexico.

“It is right for me not to answer that question,” Chung said on Sunday in response to reporters’ question of whether he had talks with the president over his resignation.

(Yonhap)