South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yeol and EU Foreign and Security Policy Advancing Director Josep Borrell held a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul that afternoon.
After holding a Korea-EU Strategic Dialogue in Seoul, they issued a joint statement saying that this was a "serious violation of international law, including the most fundamental principles of the UN Charter."
The two sides agreed to "confirm the possibility of Russia providing North Korea with technology and materials to support its military objectives."
"We are closely watching what North Korea offers in return for its provision of weapons and military forces," he said. "We are closely watching what North Korea is willing to offer in return for its provision of weapons and military forces, which endangers the international community's non-proliferation efforts and threatens peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and around the world."
"We are deeply concerned about the possibility of North Korea and Russia transferring nuclear and ballistic missile technology to Russia," it said.
"We reiterate our call for the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and for North Korea to withdraw all nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles and related programs in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner," the statement said.
"We strongly urge you to take concrete steps to abandon it in a reversible manner."
2024/11/05 08:06 KST
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