21 October 2024
South Korea’s Foreign Ministry has summoned Russian Ambassador Georgy Zinoviev to Seoul to lodge a protest over the deployment of North Korean troops to Ukraine.
Source: BBC News Russian, citing South Korean news agency Yonhap
Details: The ambassador reportedly met with Kim Hong-kyun, South Korea’s First Deputy Foreign Minister. The South Korean Foreign Ministry has not responded to requests for comment.
Background:
- On 8 October, the South Korean Ministry of Defence said that North Korea was likely to send some of its regular armed forces to Ukraine to support Russia.
- On 13 October, President Zelenskyy stated that North Korea was supplying Russia not only with weapons but also with military personnel, and called on partners to increase aid for Ukraine. On 14 October, in his evening address, Zelenskyy announced that North Korea had de facto entered the war. On 17 October, Zelenskyy specified that Russia intended to involve about 10,000 soldiers from North Korea in the war against Ukraine.
- On 18 October, Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, confirmed that approximately 11,000 North Korean infantry troops were being trained in Russia’s east. They are expected to be ready for combat against Ukraine by 1 November.
- South Korea’s National Intelligence Service reported that North Korea had sent 1,500 special forces troops to the war in Ukraine to help Russia. They have arrived in Russia.
- On Saturday, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin noted that he could not confirm reports suggesting that North Korea had sent troops to Russia to join the war against Ukraine.
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I just don’t get it. South Korea is taking the same worn pathway the rest of the free world travels on, which leads to nowhere. Instead of ejecting hot gasses and summoning useless mafia diplomats whenever mafia land escalates something, the West should do something more concrete, like hand Ukraine certain weapons and giving them permission to strike deeply into mafia territory. THIS is what raises eyebrows in the criminal regime. Everything else is wholly useless and pathetic.
Why bother. We all know the terrorist will lie through his teeth.
I thought the South Koreans were tougher than the marshmallows in Europe and North America. I was wrong.
We have to take a leaf out of the Israeli book, but even they have held back on attacking Iran.
Thanks to pressure from the Sponge Bob administration.
Yet still, despite the life-changing help provided and the sacrifice of thousands of US and UK servicemen in the Korean War, SK feels no moral obligation to provide balance by sending just two divisions from its own vast army to an important ally.
Someone ought to fucking remind them.
It must be a nasty virus that has befallen the collective West, which includes the democracies in the Pacific region. A virus that eats spines and scrotum sacks.
This was stated by U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who spoke at the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv, reports an Ukrinform correspondent.
“There is no silver bullet. No single capability will turn the tide. No one system will end Putin’s assault. What matters is the way that Ukraine fights back. What matters is the combined effects of your military capabilities and what matters is staying focused on what works,” he warned.
But no long range missiles off course…………..
The usual White House drivel. Just dump it into the nearest trash can, Veth.
Old guys lack the temper it takes to break some asses without thinking of the consequences defending principles. TY GOD, i’m still young!
They are not only old and temperless, but have no honor. I’d rather retire in honor than serve such jellyfish in dishonor.