{"id":73026,"date":"2025-07-24T08:03:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/24\/north-koreas-military-is-being-transformed-on-the-battlefields-of-ukraine-so-why-is-seoul-silent"},"modified":"2025-07-24T08:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:03:45","slug":"north-koreas-military-is-being-transformed-on-the-battlefields-of-ukraine-so-why-is-seoul-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73026","title":{"rendered":"North Korea\u2019s military is being transformed on the battlefields of Ukraine \u2013 so why is Seoul silent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observers question whether South Korea grasps the threat it faces from  Pyongyang\u2019s partnership with Moscow<\/p>\n<p>When North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles from its eastern coast in May, South Korea\u2019s response was swift. Within hours, Seoul joined Washington and Tokyo in condemning the launch as a \u201cserious threat\u201d to regional peace and security.<\/p>\n<p>But just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/missile-that-killed-eight-russian-strike-kyiv-was-nkorean-kyiv-source-says-2025-04-24\/\">weeks earlier<\/a>, when a North Korean KN-23 missile \u2013 designed to strike South Korean targets \u2013 hit a residential building in Kyiv, killing 12 civilians, Seoul said nothing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/24\/north-koreas-military-is-being-transformed-on-the-battlefields-of-ukraine-so-why-is-seoul-silent\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observers question whether South Korea grasps the threat it faces from  Pyongyang\u2019s partnership with MoscowWhen North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles from its eastern coast in May, South Korea\u2019s response was swift. Within hours, Seoul joined Wa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4858,"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":[41,40,419,222,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-south-korea","category-ukraine"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73026","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\/4858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73027,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73026\/revisions\/73027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}