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"When North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles from its eastern coast in
May, South Korea’s response was swift. Within hours, Seoul joined Washington
and Tokyo in condemning the launch as a “serious threat” to regional peace and
security.
But just weeks earlier, when a North Korean KN-23 missile – designed to strike
South Korean targets – hit a residential building in Kyiv, killing 12
civilians, Seoul said nothing.
That silence fits a broader pattern. There was no response when Russia
reportedly deployed a surface-to-air missile system to protect Pyongyang, nor
when Ukrainian intelligence revealed that Russian instructors were training
North Korean drone pilots on home soil, even as Kim Jong-un voiced
“unconditional support” for Moscow’s war.
Relations between the North and South, technically still at war, remain tense
and the muted response has raised questions from analysts over whether Seoul
fully grasps the consequences of what many see as North Korea’s most
significant military transformation in decades – one shaped in real warfare, on
the battlefields of Ukraine.
“We definitely should be alarmed,” says Chun In-bum, a former South Korean
special forces commander. “But it’s just the nature of people to avoid
catastrophe or be indifferent to the terrors of reality.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
