A Black Lives Matter banner has been taken down from the US Embassy building in South Korea three days after it was unfurled there in solidarity with demonstrators seeking racial justice after the police killing of George Floyd.

The embassy — which didn’t mention an LGBTQ pride flag that also was taken down — said the BLM banner was removed to avoid any perception that it was meant “to support or encourage donations to any specific organization.”

CNN quoted an anonymous source as saying the request to remove the BLM banner came from the office of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The top US diplomat — an evangelical Christian who has said he defines marriage as between a man and a woman — last year restricted the flying of rainbow flags, which some embassies had done each June for Pride Month.

The removal of the LGBTQ flag came hours before a landmark US Supreme Court decision that outlawed discrimination against workers based on sexual orientation.

Pompeo had ordered that only the American flag should fly from embassy flagpoles. The pride flag in Seoul had not been raised on the building’s pole.

In a statement, an embassy spokesman said the removal of the BLM banner “in no way lessens the principles and ideals expressed by raising the banner, and the embassy will look for other ways to convey fundamental American values in these times of difficulty at home,” Reuters reported.

When it was put up Saturday, Ambassador Harry Harris tweeted that his embassy in Seoul “stands in solidarity with fellow Americans grieving and peacefully protesting to demand positive change.”

Harris, who is Japanese-American, previously told embassy staff that he was “deeply troubled about the events surrounding the brutal killing of George Floyd in Minnesota and the ongoing aftermath,” according to Reuters.

“As an Asian American who was raised in the segregated South of the 1960s, I never thought I would see this happening again, especially in the 21st century,” he added in a message.

Lee Tae-ho, an activist with the Seoul-based People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, called the removal of the BLM flag regrettable, saying its presence was “a very positive thing that could improve the US image and help resolve the problem.”

“If the removal was really made because of pressure made by Trump … I think what they did was unhelpful for the US,” Lee said.

There was no immediate comment from President Trump or Pompeo about the banner removal.

On Tuesday, a banner marking the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War was draped from the building.

With Post wires