South Korea recalls ambassador from Ukraine, demands apology over Zelensky’s disclosure of North Korean POW transfer

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South Korea's Foreign Ministry announced it will recall its ambassador from Ukraine and is demanding an apology after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly disclosed that Kyiv had transferred two North Korean prisoners of war to Seoul.

South Korea says the two sides had agreed to keep the transfer quiet, and that Ukraine proposed the secrecy in the first place. Seoul acknowledges Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha offered something during consultations that technically counted as an apology, but says it wasn't enough.

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You make a deal to keep something quiet, then one side blabs it to the world and acts surprised the other side is sore. Seoul isn't just mad, it wants the apology notarized and framed, apparently, since the first one didn't measure up. Diplomacy, like a neighbor's fence dispute, usually isn't about the fence at all.

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