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Putin warns South Korea against arming Ukraine - BBC News
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Vladimir Putin has warned South Korea it would be making “a big mistake” if it arms Ukraine in the war against Russia.
His comments come after Seoul said it was considering such a possibility, in response to Russia and North Korea’s new pact to help each other in the event of “aggression” against either country.Moscow “will… [make] decisions which are unlikely to please the current leadership of South Korea” if Seoul decides to supply arms to Kyiv, Mr Putin told reporters on Thursday.The Russian leader was speaking in Vietnam, shortly after a lavish visit to Pyongyang where he signed a mutual defence agreement with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.Mr Putin also warned that Moscow is willing to arm Pyongyang if the US and its allies continue supplying Ukraine with weapons.
I said, including in Pyongyang, that we then reserve the right to supply weapons to other regions of the world," Mr Putin said.Seoul had earlier condemned the Russian-North Korean agreement as a threat to its national security, and national security adviser Chang Ho-jin had said his country planned to “reconsider the issue of arms support to Ukraine”.
Following Mr Putin’s remarks, South Korea’s presidential office said on Friday it would consider “various options” in supplying arms to Ukraine and its stance will “depend on how Russia approaches this issue”.
It also summoned the Russian ambassador Georgy Zinoviev to protest the pact, demanding that Moscow “immediately ceases” military cooperation with Pyongyang.
There is growing evidence that Russia has already been deploying North Korean missiles in Ukraine.Early on Friday the US national security council’s spokesman John Kirby weighed in on the Russian-North Korean agreement, saying it should “be of concern to any country that cares about maintaining peace and stability” in the region.He added that the agreement was “no surprise”, saying that the US had been warning about the two countries’ “burgeoning defence relationship” for many months.Tokyo said it was “seriously concerned that President Putin did not rule out military technology co-operation with North Korea”, Japan’s government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi said, adding that the agreement was “unacceptable”.Analysts have said that the treaty could have significant implications for the world as well as the region.
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