Seoul Eyes Arms for Ukraine Over Alleged North Korean Deployment
- Yoon calls Russia-North Korea ties ‘threat’ to world security
- US, NATO maintain they cannot confirm the troops dispatch
Ukrainian soldiers during military training at an undisclosed location in Poland.
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South Korea has raised the prospect of sending weapons to Ukraine, in response to North Korea’s reported dispatch of troops to Russia to support Moscow’s war on Ukraine, underscoring the risk of a divided Korean peninsula getting dragged into the conflict.
South Korea’s National Security Council held an emergency meeting on Tuesday and asked North Korea to immediately withdraw troops, it said in a statement. Seoul could consider providing weapons to Ukraine depending on developments, a senior presidential official told reporters.