PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday offered an apology and expressed his “deepest regrets” to the South Korean government and the wife of murdered South Korean executive Jee Ick-Joo.

In a statement read by presidential spokesman Ernesto, Duterte condoled with Jee’s wife, Choi Kyung Jin, and reiterated the Philippine government’s vow to deliver swift justice for the Korean national.

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