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South Korea to withdraw some embassy staff from Ukraine as row over POW transfer deepens
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South Korea says it will withdraw some staff from its embassy in Kyiv, deepening a diplomatic row over Ukraine’s announcement last month of a transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war that Seoul says was meant to be secret.
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Seoul will pull about half its Kyiv embassy diplomats after a ministry spokesperson said Ukraine took no constructive steps on the dispute over Zelenskyy’s public transfer of two North Korean POWs.
South Korea has decided to withdraw some staff from its embassy in Ukraine in an escalating spat over Kyiv’s disclosure it had transferred North Korean prisoners of war to the South.
South Korea says it will withdraw some staff from its embassy in Kyiv, deepening a diplomatic row over Ukraine’s announcement last month of a transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war that Seoul says was meant to be secret.
"This measure was taken because we judged it necessary to facilitate an amicable resolution of the issue and restore trust between the two countries," said Park Doo-soon, a spokesperson for South Korea's Foreign Ministry, according to Yonhap.
