Earlier this week, Putin used his first journey to North Korea in additional than 20 years to shore up relations with Pyongyang, which has pledged its help for the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Whereas Putin claimed the 2 pariah states’ protection treaty was “defensive in nature,” Seoul lashed out on the settlement, with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol calling it “absurd.”
South Korea has thus far solely equipped non-lethal help to Kyiv. Certain by its Overseas Commerce Act, the nation can’t export weapons aside from “peaceable functions.”
If Seoul provides Kyiv immediately with weapons, it might be a radical shift within the nation’s longstanding coverage to solely export arms to international locations in peacetime — although its munitions have ended up in Ukraine through third international locations, comparable to the U.S.
