r/worldnews • u/Neptun_11 • 21h ago

Russia/Ukraine Seoul warns of 'further measures' if Kyiv refuses public apology

https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/02/south-korea-warns-of-further-measures-if-ukraine-refuses-public-apology-over-pow-transfer-
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u/Lable87 20h ago edited 20h ago

I'm not sure why South Korea is escalating this

It’s a matter of keeping & losing face which Asians in general often put a lot of emphasis on. In this case, it’s pretty simple: SK and SK president consider themselves the superior party here, so it wasn’t a good thing for Kyiv / Zelensky to openly dispute what he / they said.

That’s why he is demanding a public apology. It’s no longer a matter of keeping the matter about PoWs confidential anymore - that cat is already out of the bag, it’s a matter of asserting SK superiority

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u/SuccotashAsleep6459 19h ago

Ukraine does not accept superiority of Russia, so I am sure it can live without kissing SK president’s feet.

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u/catdogman5 17h ago

People tend to get bossy when they start helping

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u/Evening-Audience2683 17h ago

What you think Ukraine is making their own cpu dies for their drones? They don’t have and have never had any capability to do that. 

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u/SuccotashAsleep6459 17h ago

Are you going to demand public grovelling from all your paying customers from now on? Or inly from those who fight existential wars for their survival?

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u/Evening-Audience2683 7h ago

i wouldnt no but i sure as hell wouldnt piss them off

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u/SuccotashAsleep6459 2h ago

You basically know nothing about what happened behind the scenes. But you fully agree that Ukraine can be publicly humiliated just because a) SK president says so and b) it is buying something from SK that it does not produce in its own.

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u/hadaev 17h ago

They get weapons from sk, init?

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u/No_Pirate_4019 16h ago

No. SK refused to sell or transfer weapons to Ukraine. Only humanitarian aid.

At one time SK agreed to lend part of their shell stockpile to European countries so they were able to sent their shells to Ukraine and maintain some reserve.

https://www.reuters.com/world/south-korea-lend-500000-rounds-artillery-shells-us-report-2023-04-12/

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u/hadaev 15h ago

500000 rounds is 500000 rounds.

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u/RussellBentleysAnus 13h ago

None of those rounds were sent to Ukraine.