Seoul demands apology after Zelenskyy’s UN speech breaches secrecy pact on North Korean POWs
South Korea has formally demanded an apology and official explanation from Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly disclosed the transfer of two captured North Korean soldiers to Seoul at the UN General Assembly. Seoul argues this violated a confidentiality agreement designed to protect the prisoners' families from North Korean reprisals. Kyiv denies any such pact existed at the presidential level, while Seoul’s intelligence agency suspects the disclosure was a strategic move to pressure South Korea into providing lethal weapons.