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.

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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. 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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