South Korea’s president has met a visiting Ukraine delegation and called for a joint response to the threat posed by North Korea’s recent dispatch of more than 10,000 soldiers to support Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko issued a warning to South Korea against supplying lethal aid to Ukraine, saying that the move would "fully destroy relations" between the two countries.

A top South Korean official says Russia has supplied air defense missile systems to North Korea in exchange for Pyongyang sending troops.

Russia will respond “in every way that we find necessary” if South Korea sends arms to Ukraine, a top Kremlin official said Sunday.

Pyongyang has long coveted an advanced air-defense system to guard against missiles and war planes from the United States and South Korea.

The U.S., South Korea and others say North Korea has sent more than 10,000 troops to Russia to support its war against Ukraine.

A top South Korean official says Russia has supplied anti-air missiles to North Korea in exchange for it sending troops

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addresses South Korean parliament via video link at National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea April 11, 2022. Chung Sung-Jun/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo SEOUL (Reuters) - South Koreans remain widely opposed to directly supplying arms to Ukraine,

South Koreans remain widely opposed to directly supplying arms to Ukraine, recent polls show, despite renewed international requests from Kyiv and allied capitals after North Korean troops were reported to be helping Russia.

At a UN Security Council meeting on Wednesday, the United States revealed that North Korea plans to transfer additional ballistic missiles to Russia, following the earlier delivery of over 100 missiles already used by Moscow in its attacks on Ukrainian cities,