South Korea demanded an apology from Ukraine because of data on prisoners from the DPRK

The administration of the President of South Korea demanded from the Ukrainian authorities an apology because of the disclosure of information about the transfer of prisoners of war of the DPRK to the South Korean side, reports Reuters.

The presidential office explained that initially between Seoul and Kiev was an agreement to keep information about North Korean prisoners of war secret. Subsequent denials by the Ukrainian authorities that there were no such agreements violate trust between the countries.

The administration of the South Korean president insists that it decided to keep secret information about the transfer of prisoners of war for security reasons, but the Ukrainian side made this data public, provoking unnecessary internal political disputes in South Korea.

On September 23, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky at the UN General Assembly said that the Ukrainian side handed over to South Korea two North Korean prisoners of war from the Kursk region. After the adviser to the Ukrainian president, Dmitry Litvin said that there were no non-disclosure agreements between Kiev and Seoul, and noted that it would be strange to hide the fact of the transfer of prisoners.