Flag of the Republic of KoreaSEUL Feb 22South Korea will make efforts to ensure that the situation in Ukraine does not have a negative impact on efforts to resolve the problems of the Korean Peninsula, RIA Novosti was told in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea. «Our government continues to closely monitor the relevant trends and will closely cooperate with interested countries strive to make the necessary efforts so that this does not have a negative impact on the progress of the peace process on the Korean Peninsula,» the South Korean Foreign Ministry said.Seoul banned South Koreans from traveling to Ukraine Earlier, President Moon Jae-in called on the participants of the meeting of the National Security Council of the Republic of Korea to do the same. The head of the South Korean ministry of unification, Lee In-young, who oversees the entire spectrum of relations with North Korea, also took part in an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis in Ukraine. Speaking on February 19 at the Munich Security Conference, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that he would initiate negotiations between the participants in the Budapest Memorandum , which implies the provision of security guarantees to Ukraine in connection with accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The Minister of Foreign Affairs was entrusted to convene them. According to the Ukrainian President, if they do not take place or there are no security guarantees for Kiev as a result, «Ukraine will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum does not work, and all package decisions of 1994 will be called into question.»
The United States and South Korea discussed the latest DPRK missile launches dangerous, since Ukraine has equipment, technologies and specialists in the field of creating nuclear weapons and their carriers from Soviet times. This, in his opinion, gives Kiev much greater opportunities in this area than Iran and North Korea, «which are being talked about from all levels and are engaged in agreements for these countries to be denuclearized.» The situation in Ukraine and efforts to resolve the nuclear The problems of the Korean Peninsula were also discussed by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during a telephone conversation today. Posted by: Ekaterina Zaitseva
