The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, warned South Korea on Thursday (06/20/2024) that sending weapons to Ukraine, faced with a Russian military offensive, would be a “big mistake”, and that Moscow could in turn send war material to North Korea.
“Sending lethal weapons to Ukraine into combat zones would be a big mistake,” Putin said during a visit to Vietnam.
“If that happens, we will make the corresponding decision, which probably will not be liked by the current leaders of South Korea,” he added.
The Russian president also mentioned the possibility of sending military material to North Korea, a country with which he signed a defense agreement on Monday that caused concern in South Korea.
“Those who send (missiles to Ukraine) think that they are not fighting us, but I have already said, even in Pyongyang, that we reserve the right to supply weapons to other regions of the world, in connection with our agreements with the DPRK” (Republic Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea), he stressed.
“I don’t rule it out,” he said.
The United States considered Putin’s statement “very worrying.”
The shipment of Russian weapons to the secretive Asian communist country “could destabilize the Korean Peninsula, potentially, depending on the type of weapons, and could violate Security Council resolutions that Russia itself has supported,” declared the State Department spokesperson. , Matthew Miller.
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