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Jeehye Yoo

Jeehye Yoo is a journalist with South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo who covers North Korea and inter-Korean relations and has appeared as a guest on CSIS's The Impossible State podcast.

Oct 9, 2026

4:01
Yeah.
4:01
Yeah, I don't know exactly what President Zelenskyy intended.
4:05
Maybe he wanted to put pressure on both North Korea and Russia, because if Kim Jong-un is considering sending another large number of troops to frontline, uh, making this public maybe could draw much more indonation... in- international attention to, uh, DPRK's role in the war.
4:25
So in that sense, I can understand his logic.
4:29
But also, at the same time, this is a big headache for Seoul.
5:32
Mm-hmm.
5:32
So I can totally understand, uh, why he was so, uh, he and government is so unhappy about the way, uh, this matter is announced by President Zelenskyy.
5:44
And, uh, one more thing is I think, uh, when the South Korean government thinks about the war in Ukraine, uh, one of its major consideration is relationship with Russia.

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