EU and South Korea close ranks against a common threat - CEIAS
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The 11th summit between the EU and South Korea in Brussels produced a joint statement condemning Pyongyang-Moscow military cooperation and advancing the bilateral Security and Defense Partnership.

The 11th summit between the EU and South Korea in Brussels produced a joint statement condemning Pyongyang-Moscow military cooperation and advancing the bilateral Security and Defense Partnership. Key takeaways:

  • The EU and South Korea issued their strongest joint language yet on Russia-North Korea military cooperation, calling on both Moscow and Pyongyang to halt arms transfers, troop deployments, and sanctions evasion activities that have enabled Russia’s continued war in Ukraine.
  • The summit advanced the Security and Defense Partnership signed between the two countries in November 2024, with both sides agreeing to launch negotiations on a classified information-sharing agreement, a step toward defense-industrial cooperation that goes beyond diplomatic statements.
  • Beyond the Korean Peninsula, the joint statement extended EU-South Korea security language to the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, and the Strait of Hormuz, [opposing unilateral attempts to alter the status quo in the Indo-Pacific and] reflecting a shared premise that European and Indo-Pacific security are no longer separable.

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  • BilboBargains@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    NATO was created as a mutual defence pact against a potential threat posed by Stalin’s Soviet Russia that was never realised. Stalin and Soviet Russia are long gone but NATO continues to expand its influence right up to the borders of Russia as if we still need to gang up on them, cold war style. Meanwhile the oligarchs, who continue to subvert the narrative and lay waste to the middle east, are permitted to act with impunity. We probably should keep an eye on what the Russians are up to but not at the expense of losing sight of the Epstein class of mendacious warmongers, the real and present threat to peace and stability.