The government said on Tuesday it is looking into a report that there may have been a Korean connection to last week's horrific school attack in Russia. Russian Deputy Prosecutor General Sergei Fridinsky was recently quoted as saying the terrorists behind the hostage seige that killed some 340 people were of ten different ethnic and national backgrounds including Chechen, Tartar, Kazakh and Korean. The Russian official did not elaborate, leaving it unclear whether the alleged Korean terrorist hailed from North or South Korea, or was possibly a Korean-Russian. Director general of the Foreign Ministry's European affairs bureau Kim Young-seok said he had instructed the South Korean mission in Moscow to look into the matter, saying the ministry would immediately announce any findings. A 53-hour hostage crisis in Beslan, North Ossetia ended in a bloodbath Friday. A drawn-out battle between the extremist hostage-takers and Russian security forces spawned over 1,000 casualties, with a death toll in the hundreds that continues to rise. The Russian government has come under fire in recent days for its alleged effort to initially minimize the scope of the catastrophe.