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There is no scenario in which we give someone the weapons we have recently bought for billions of zlotys from the pockets of our taxpayers. These weapons should serve the security and defence of the Republic of Poland,
the Polish president stressed North Korea's involvement dramatically raises the risk of entrapment for South Korea in the war."
There is a possibility South Korea could be shooting at Russians and/or North Koreans, and it would internationalize and widen the war further,
Sean McFate, a strategy professor at Georgetown University, told BI South Korea could assist in a psychological warfare campaign against North Korean soldiers who may not want to fight in the war" as well
South Korean weapons could potentially make a significant difference on both Ukraine's defensive capabilities and offensive capabilities,
Jeremy Chan, a China and northeast Asia analyst at the Eurasia Group, told Business Insider Seoul believes that the threat to provide weapons gives it more leverage over Moscow than it would have if South Korea were to begin providing weapons directly,
North Korea's actions would have to present a clearer and more immediate threat to South Korea's national security before we would expect the National Assembly to authorize export of weapons to Ukraine,
While we have maintained our principle of not directly supplying lethal weapons, we can also review our stance more flexibly, depending on the level of North Korean military activities,
The government will work together with the international community to firmly respond to military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, and take appropriate measures as their military collaboration progresses,
This would constitute a serious breach of international law, including the most fundamental principles of the UN Charter. It would be a unilateral hostile act by the DPRK with serious consequences for European and global peace and security,
The European Union will coordinate with international partners on the matter, including on responses,
the EU's top diplomat concluded, without specifying what those steps might be If North Korea dispatches special forces to the Ukraine war as part of Russia-North Korea cooperation, we will support Ukraine in stages and also review and implement measures necessary for security on the Korean Peninsula,
Yoon said during a joint press conference with Duda The UN Security Council has become effectively defunct due to Russia's refusal to cooperate with the other permanent members,
said Park Jung-won, a professor of law at Dankook University Russia has continued to use ballistic missiles and other materials unlawfully procured from [North Korea] to further its illegal assault on Ukraine."
Marking the beginning of this new mechanism, US Deputy State Secretary Kurt Campbell told reporters in Seoul Russia is not really interested in sanctioning North Korea now,
says Ben Ascione, an assistant professor of international relations at Tokyo's Waseda University When the UN Security Council passed a resolution in 2017, both China and Russia agreed to cooperate with the rest of the world to sanction the North and to try to pressure it to give up its nuclear weapons,
If the UN is paralyzed, then it is up to other states with a legitimate concern to enforce those sanctions against rogue states,
The goal of the new mechanism is to assist the full implementation of UN sanctions on the DPRK [North Korea] by publishing information based on a rigorous inquiry into sanctions violations and evasion attempts,
It may very well prove to be more effective in terms of the actual implementation of sanctions as the UN unit was more bureaucratic and required a great deal more discussion before an agreement was reached on a course of action,
More recently Russia and, in some instances, China has blocked some arenas of cooperation associated with those dangerous and provocative activities,