South Korean leader urges response to North Korean troops in Russia

Ukraine’s Defence Minister Rustem Umerov met the South Korean delegation in Seoul Picture: Yonhap via AP

South Korea’s President has met a visiting Ukrainian delegation and called for a joint response to the threat posed by North Korea’s recent dispatch of more than 10,000 soldiers to support Russia’s war against Ukraine.

The North Korean troop deployment is threatening to expand the near-three-year war, with Ukraine and the US saying that some of the soldiers have already begun engaging in battle on the front lines.