A South Korean authorities delegation to Ukraine will return house as early as Monday after visiting Kyiv to debate attainable cooperation measures in response to North Korea’s troop deployment to Russia, officers have stated.
The delegation, consisting of senior intelligence and navy officers, was visiting Ukraine after briefing the North Atlantic Treaty Group in Brussels final week over the North’s troop dispatch.
“The delegation will doubtless return house round Nov. 4,” Protection Minister Kim Yong-hyun advised reporters Wednesday throughout his go to to Washington, D.C., for an annual assembly of protection chiefs of South Korea and the US.
“(We) will take crucial measures in cooperation with the worldwide neighborhood, based mostly on studies from the group,” he stated.
Kim seemed to be referring to Seoul’s consideration of sending a staff of observers to Ukraine to watch North Korean troops deployed in assist of Russia.
On Friday, Nationwide Safety Adviser Shin Received-sik advised lawmakers in a parliamentary audit that such a dispatch could be important for South Korea to know trendy warfare.
If despatched, the staff of observers is anticipated to be composed of navy and intelligence personnel, and will probably participate in analyzing North Korean fight techniques and interrogations of captured troops.
Amid rising issues of North Korean troops probably becoming a member of fight towards Ukraine, South Korea has vowed to take “phased measures” in response to the extent of navy cooperation between Russia and North Korea. (Yonhap)