South Korea

Friendly Fire: A Confidentiality Row Strains South Korea-Ukraine Ties

South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung has accused Zelensky of breaking a confidentiality pact by announcing at the UN that Ukraine sent two captured North Korean soldiers to Seoul. South Korea fears for the men, their families and peninsula stability.

South Korea’s Lee Proposes Sanctions Relief for North Korean Nuclear Freeze

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has urged sanctions relief for North Korea in return for a freeze on its expanding nuclear and missile programmes. His phased proposal replaces an immediate denuclearisation demand with a sequence of stopping, reducing and eventually dismantling the arsenal.