{"id":67390,"date":"2024-10-22T22:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T13:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/22\/south-korea-mulls-aiding-ukraine-evidence-north-korea-involvement-war"},"modified":"2024-10-22T22:03:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T13:03:53","slug":"south-korea-mulls-aiding-ukraine-amid-reports-north-korea-to-assist-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67390","title":{"rendered":"South Korea mulls aiding Ukraine amid reports North Korea to assist Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul signals its most proactive position towards arming Ukraine to date<\/p>\n<p>South Korea is considering directly supplying weapons to Ukraine as evidence increases that North Korean soldiers are preparing to assist Russia in its war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s spy agency (NIS) said last week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/18\/north-korean-troops-russia-arrived-ukraine-seoul\">North Korea had shipped 1,500 special forces personnel<\/a> to Russia\u2019s far east for training and acclimatising at local military bases for future combat alongside Moscow\u2019s troops in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/22\/south-korea-mulls-aiding-ukraine-evidence-north-korea-involvement-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul signals its most proactive position towards arming Ukraine to dateSouth Korea is considering directly supplying weapons to Ukraine as evidence increases that North Korean soldiers are preparing to assist Russia in its war against Ukraine.South Ko&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3503,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,221,40,419,222,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-south-korea","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67391,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67390\/revisions\/67391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}