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South Korea's Lee threatens action against Ukraine over transfer of North Korean soldiers

Global Published 2 October 2026, 08:10 · archived 2 Oct 2026

SEOUL: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Friday threatened unspecified measures against Ukraine unless Kyiv acknowledged what Seoul says was a confidentiality ​agreement covering the transfer of two captured North Korean soldiers and apologises. “If the refusal to ​acknowledge the facts and issue a public apology continues, we will take additional ⁠measures,” Lee said in a post on X. Lee also expressed “grave regret” over what he described as Ukrainian ​remarks about an imminent military clash between North and South Korea, saying they amounted to encouraging war ​on the Korean Peninsula...

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