The government is seeking to confirm the Associated Press report on the abduction of slain hostage Kim Sun-il. The AP reported Thursday that it had asked the Foreign Ministry about Kim Sun-il in the first week of June, only to be told that the government had no reports of a South Korean in captivity in Iraq. A ministry official said that such inquiries from foreign correspondents normally come through the office of its spokesman, but the ministry had received no inquiry about the case from the spokesman's office nor from any other offices. The AP said it made the inquiry after the AP Television News office in Baghdad received a videotape in early June that depicted Kim denouncing the Bush administration and the U.S.-led war in Iraq. APTN has said it did not broadcast the videotape at the time since it was unclear whether Kim was being held against his will. The Korean government, on its part, is investigating why the Korean embassy in Iraq had no knowledge of the missing Korean for as long as three weeks, at a time when mounting evidence suggests that Kim Sun-il may have been kidnapped as early as May 31st.