South Korea’s terms and conditions for improving relations with Russia
South Korea called on Russia to stop what it called “illegal military cooperation” with North Korea before any talks on improving bilateral relations with Seoul.
According to RCO News Agency, the South Korean Foreign Ministry announced in a stateme today (Sunday): If Russia was to restore relations between Moscow and Seoul, it must first end its illegal military cooperation with North Korea, which threatens peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula. .
The stateme came after Russian Ambassador to South Korea, Georgi Zinoviev, expressed hope that the impeachme of South Korean Preside Yoon Seok-yul would not negatively affect the poteial for improved bilateral relations between Moscow and Seoul.
In a message on social networks on Saturday, Zinoviev expressed hope that the impeachme would not hinder the improveme of bilateral relations, but rather help it.
He coinued to repeat Moscow’s warning that Seoul should never cross the “red line” of providing deadly weapons to Ukraine, adding that fortunately South Korea has refused to do so.
According to Anatolia News agency, South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs also said that the Russian represeative’s public statemes about bilateral relations were “inappropriate” considering the political situation of the host coury.
The ministry added in its stateme: We iend to coinue our foreign policy without wavering.
Following the increase in defense cooperation between Russia and North Korea in rece mohs, the tense relations between Seoul and Moscow have become more tense.
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