SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's prime minister offered his resignation Sunday to take responsibility for criticism over the government's response to the sinking of a ferry that killed nearly 300 people.

"The right thing for me to do is to take responsibility and resign," Chung Hong-won said 11 days after one of the nation's worst maritime disasters.

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