S Korea’s Yoon tells UN that Russia helping N Korea would be ‘provocation’
2023-09-21 10:06:50 source：The Aljazeera
September 20, 2023
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has said that if Russia helped North Korea enhance its weapons programmes in return for assistance for its war in Ukraine, it would be “a direct provocation” and Seoul and its allies would not stand idly by.
In a speech on Wednesday to the annual high-level UN General Assembly, Yoon said such a scenario would threaten the peace and security of not only Ukraine but also South Korea.
Yoon made the comments just as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un returned to Pyongyang from a six-day trip to Russia, his longest foreign travel as a leader.
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