# Seoul warns of ‘further action’ if Ukraine does not apologise over POW row

https://mins.news/en/item/82864

- BBC News, 2026-10-02 03:09 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm1dld14weero?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has threatened unspecified “further action” unless Ukraine publicly apologises for revealing that two North Korean prisoners of war were sent to South Korea. Lee accused Kyiv of trying to provoke war on the Korean Peninsula, while Ukraine called the dispute a “diplomatic misunderstanding” and said it was working to resolve it.

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