South Korea has summoned the Russian ambassador, seeking the “immediate withdrawal” of North Korean troops which it says are being trained to fight in Ukraine.

About 1,500 North Korean soldiers, including those from the special forces, have already arrived in Russia, according to Seoul’s spy agency.

In a meeting with the ambassador Georgiy Zinoviev, South Korea’s vice-foreign minister Kim Hong-kyun denounced the move and warned that Seoul will “respond with all measures available”.

  • Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Seoul will “respond with all measures available”.

    Perhaps the law that forbids arms exports to warfighting countries could be re-examined? Wouldn’t even need to toss the whole thing, a new law could probably be passed to create an exception.

    I’m sure some of S Korea’s gigantic reserves of 155mm would make a very significant difference.

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      14 hours ago

      Or, a few battalions of those shiny K2 Black Panthers, which Poland signed a deal an absolute shitload of a couple years back. This’d be outstanding battlefield testing for them, tbh.