“Depending on the level of North Korean involvement, we will gradually adjust our support strategy in several stages. This means that we do not exclude the possibility of supplying weapons,” warned Yoon Suk Yeol this Thursday, November 7 .
South Korea does not rule out directly delivering weapons to Ukraine, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced this Thursday, November 7, referring to a possible adjustment of Seoul's policy in this area, information reporting on the preparation of North Korean soldiers to fight in Ukraine.
The government of this country, a major arms exporter, had already indicated that it was studying the possibility of sending weapons directly to kyiv, in response to the deployment of soldiers by Pyongygang to support Moscow in its war against 'Ukraine.
“Priority for defensive weapons”
It has opposed it until now because of a long-standing national policy that prevents it from supplying weapons to countries engaged in active conflicts.
“Now, depending on the level of North Korean involvement, we will gradually adjust our support strategy in several stages,” South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said at a news conference in Seoul.
“This means that we do not exclude the possibility of providing weapons,” he added, specifying, without saying more, that “if we engage in support in terms of armaments, we consider as a priority weapons defensive.”
According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, 11,000 North Korean soldiers have been deployed in the Russian region of Kursk, bordering Ukraine, to support the Kremlin forces.
