South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Friday (April 28) it was necessary to ensure Russia's invasion of Ukraine does not succeed and that Seoul was considering its options when it came to lethal aid to Kyiv. In a speech at Harvard University's Kennedy School on the fifth day of a state visit to mark the 70th anniversary of the...
South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks at the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, on April 28, 2023.South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Friday it was necessary to ensure Russia's invasion of Ukraine does not succeed and that Seoul was considering its options when it came to lethal aid to Kyiv.
"We should prove that such attempts will never reach success, to block further attempts being made in the future," he said, according to simultaneous translations of his remarks."We are closely monitoring the situation that's going on the battlefield in Ukraine and will take proper measures in order to uphold the international norms and international law.
Yoon said the Washington Declaration required Seoul to keep respecting the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and not acquire its own nuclear weapons.
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