The president announced South Korea Yoon Suk-yeol said on Thursday that his country, which is one of the largest arms exporters in the world, does not rule out the possibility of directly sending weapons to… Ukraine After it was reported that North Korea sent soldiers to support Russia in its war there.
“Now, depending on the level of involvement,” Yoon said at a press conference in Seoul north korea“We will gradually adjust our support strategy in stages.”
He added: “This means that we do not rule out the possibility of sending weapons” directly to Ukraine.
But the South Korean President stressed that “if we engage in support at the armament level, the priority will be defensive weapons.”
The South Korean government announced that it was actually studying the possibility of directly sending weapons to Ukraine in response to Pyongyang sending forces to support Russia in its fight against the Ukrainian army.
This contradicts Seoul’s policy of not exporting weapons to any country experiencing war.
According to the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky Pyongyang deployed 11,000 North Korean soldiers in Kursk region Russia bordering Ukraine in support of the Kremlin forces.
During the same press conference, Yoon said that he agreed during a phone call with the US President-elect Donald Trump To meet soon.
He said: “We agreed to meet soon… I think we will have the opportunity to meet during this year.”
He added that he discussed with Trump several topics related to North Korea, such as its sending to its southern neighbor “more than 7,000 garbage balloons, its interference with the Global Positioning System (GPS)” and the missile tests it constantly conducts.
And the council believed Russian Federation Wednesday on the mutual defense treaty with North Korea.
This reconciliation was concluded during a rare visit by the Russian President Vladimir Putin To Pyongyang last June, it specifically stipulates that one party shall provide “immediate military assistance” to the other party in the event that the latter is attacked.
The involvement of North Korean soldiers in the fighting, which the West believes will be imminent, will constitute a new blow to the Ukrainian forces, which lack equipment and are retreating in many front line locations.