He said that his previously disclosed goal of having a new IMF deal by May was not a hard target. "I said that May is acceptable, but it does not mean that May has to be the date," he added.
The consumer price index (CPI) fell 0.3% in January from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said in a separate statement, compared with no change tipped by the Reuters poll and a 0.2% rise in December.
"The KDCA should perfectly ready for the entire process the moment the vaccine arrives - the distribution, storage, inoculation and follow-ups," Chung told a government meeting.
The company argued the latest Pentagon review was "riddled with errors even more egregious than those that plagued the initial award," and that the Pentagon "manipulated its evaluations to a degree that belies any facade of rationality."