Seoul claims that a possible arms supply to Ukraine “depends on what Russia does in the future”

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South Korean authorities claim that it does not send weapons to kyiv for the sake of a stable relationship with Moscow

20 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The South Korean Presidency stated on Thursday that the possible supply of arms to Ukraine, in the context of the Russian invasion, “depends on what Russia does in the future.”

“The Russian authorities comment on things that do not happen, but what we do in the future can be seen the other way around, since it depends on Russia’s actions in the future,” a senior South Korean official said, as reported by the news agency. yonhap news.

These statements have come after Moscow and Seoul have clashed over comments by the South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, in which he recognized that the Asian country does not rule out supplying weapons if there is a “real danger to the population.”

Thus, the South Korean official has asserted that “the president’s words were a response of common sense and principles” despite the fact that there are currently no “changes in support for Ukraine.”

“(Yoon) put it hypothetically: If there is a serious civilian massacre or a humanitarian problem that the international community would consider serious from a humanitarian point of view, how can Korea sit still in a situation?”

Likewise, he stressed that “there is no legal provision in the internal law of our country that prohibits the support of arms to an external belligerent country” and has indicated that the country is “much more active in the provision of humanitarian and financial aid this anus”.

“The reason why we are not taking such actions voluntarily is to balance and meet the task of maintaining stable Korea-Russia relations while actively participating in the ranks of the international community to protect the freedom of the Ukrainian people,” has explained.

The Kremlin reacted to Yoon’s possible supply, indicating that it would provide weapons to its North Korean “partners” if they dared to support the Ukrainian army with arms.

The former Russian president and current vice president of the country’s Security Council, Dimitri Medvedev, assured that the statements by the South Korean president represented a “radical turn” to his previous position that war support for Ukraine “was completely ruled out.”

“I wonder what the people of this country (South Korea) will say when they see the latest samples of Russian weapons from their closest neighbors, our partners in North Korea,” the former Russian president said on his official channel on the Telegram social network. , where he has stressed that this maneuver would be a ‘quid pro quo’.