The president of South Korea has suggested that Seoul could provide arms to Kyiv in a significant foreign policy about-turn.
Seoul, South Korea – When Yang Seung-ji read last month that thousands of North Korean soldiers had been sent to Russia for possible deployment in Ukraine, she immediately went online to find the nearest emergency shelter.
Yang is concerned that North Korean tensions, heightened by Pyongyang’s reported involvement in the war in Ukraine, could spill into an armed confrontation.
I thought public transportation would be down and keep me from getting home,” he said in an interview with Al Jazeera-the job seeker recently moved from the regional city of Chungju into Seoul, located about 50 kilometers (30 miles) away from the inter-Korean border.
“We thought of packing our stuff and stacking food in the apartment.
“Ever since the word of North Korea’s balloons carrying rubbish landing in parts of Seoul, there’s just a sense that things are escalating,” Yang further said.
The US Department of Defense last week reaffirmed earlier statements by Ukrainian and South Korean intelligence that as many as 10,000 North Korean soldiers are training in Russia because Moscow seeks to fill out its troop numbers in the almost three-year-long war.
