The Latest: Italy: North Korean envoy didn’t ask for asylum

ROME (AP) — The Latest on the disappearance of a North Korean diplomat and his wife from Italy (all times local):
10:55 a.m.
The Italian Foreign Ministry says the envoy who had been North Korea’s acting ambassador in Rome has not asked Italian authorities for asylum.
South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers in Seoul on Thursday that North Korean diplomat Jo Song Gil went into hiding with his wife in November before his term in Italy ended. His whereabouts are not publicly known