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RegioNews reports about it Yonhap, reports Ukrinform.
The head of the Korean Defense Department, Kim Yong-hyun, said at the hearings in the parliamentary defense committee that sending a group of observers to Kyiv would be important for the country's security and emphasized that such a team would not mean the deployment of South Korean troops in Ukraine.
"The monitoring group is different from the deployment of troops. Such a team is not a military unit, is deployed without weapons and will consist of a small number of professionals who will be in Ukraine for a short period of time," said Kim.
He emphasized that the deployment of such a monitoring group would be based on Seoul's needs, not a request from the UN or a country at war (meaning Ukraine).
The parliament of South Korea must give its consent to the government sending a monitoring team to Ukraine.
Last month in Washington, during a meeting with journalists, Kim ruled out the possibility of sending his country's troops to Kyiv and said that sending a group of observers is necessary to obtain information that will help protect South Korea.
At the end of October, a government delegation from Seoul, consisting of high-ranking intelligence and military personnel, visited Ukraine and the NATO headquarters in Brussels, where the parties discussed the sending of troops by North Korea to help Russia in the war against Ukraine.
