South Korea rejected a request by Ukrainian defence minister for anti-aircraft weapons.

 ゼレンスキー氏「韓国が持つ兵器あれば国民の命助けられる」…韓国国会でオンライン演説

Ukraine's Zelenskiy seeks military aid from South Korea

By Josh Smith and Soo-Hyang Choi

Seoul’s defence ministry on Monday said it had rejected a request by Ukrainian defence minister Oleksii Reznikov for anti-aircraft weapons.

In a phone call on Friday, South Korean defence minister Suh Wook told his Ukrainian counterpart that any support of lethal weapons would be limited in light of South Korea's security situation and its potential impact on military readiness, ministry spokesman Boo Seung-chan said at a briefing.

 

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By Sooyoung Oh, a South Korean journalist based in Seoul.

APRIL 6, 2022

“South Korea was out of step,” said Evans Revere, a former U.S. principal deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. “Not only out of step with the United States, but out of step with the international community, undermining the perception of international solidarity among democratic and allied countries.”

the Moon administration took a step backward, attempting a “double allegiance” to Washington and Beijing in hopes of advancing on inter-Korean diplomacy. Moon expressed support for U.S. Indo-Pacific initiatives and increased South Korea’s contributions to shared defense costs. At the same time, he refused to drop Chinese 5G networks, diplomatically boycott the Beijing Olympics, raise the issue of human rights in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, or mention China’s aggression toward Taiwan in a joint declaration with U.S. President Joe Biden last May.