Sending killer weapons to Ukraine can be a ‘large mistake’ – POLITICO

Earlier this week, Putin used his first journey to North Korea in additional than twenty years to shore up relations with Pyongyang, which has pledged its assist 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 to this point solely equipped non-lethal support to Kyiv. Sure by its International Commerce Act, the nation can’t export weapons apart from “peaceable functions.”

If Seoul provides Kyiv straight with weapons, it will 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, reminiscent of the U.S.