Inside Ukraine’s strange rift with a Nato ally over North Korea
21 October 2026
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North Korea
Sanghun Seok, a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, says the public confrontation between Seoul and Kyiv seems to be “growing unnecessarily contentious. [...] The broader mood in Seoul seems to be that it is now becoming harder to understand whether Kyiv’s priority is to deepen cooperation or to prioritise public pressure even where it actually makes it harder for Seoul to consider what forms of cooperation may be possible,” he says.

