Andrei Kulik, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic, said that the results of the previous development of bilateral relations between Russia and South Korea were actually frozen, but that Seoul sent signals that it was ready to “unfreeze” them at an opportunity.
He noted that the events in Ukraine were not a conflict between Moscow and Kiev, but a “complete hybrid war between the West and Russia”. In this situation, according to the diplomat, Seoul supported Western countries and there was a radical turn in bilateral relations.
“If it’s not destruction, freeze all the wealth we’ve amassed over the past 32 years,” he says. TASS Kulik’s words.
He stressed that since the early 1990s, Moscow and Seoul have established “from the ground up” relations, a dialogue has been established through parliaments, national security councils, foreign ministries and other departments. Kulik added that South Korea has become Russia’s second-largest trading partner in the Asia-Pacific region, after China.
formerly Kulik judicial A reflection of the hostile position of Seoul, the assumption of the supply of weapons to Kiev.