{"id":17020,"date":"2023-04-20T03:16:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T03:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/us-to-coordinate-with\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T03:23:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T03:23:13","slug":"us-to-coordinate-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/us-to-coordinate-with\/","title":{"rendered":"US to coordinate with South Korea on additional Ukraine support &#8211; State Dept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211;     The United States will continue to coordinate closely with South Korea on more support for Ukraine, calling its key Asian ally &#8220;a stalwart partner&#8221; in defending Ukraine&#8217;s sovereignty, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with Reuters, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said the country might go beyond humanitarian or financial aid for Ukraine under certain circumstances, signalling a shift in his stance against arming Ukraine for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ROK (Republic of Korea) has been a stalwart partner in defending Ukraine&#8217;s right to territorial sovereignty against Russian aggression from the earliest days of the full-scale invasion,&#8221; a U.S. State Department spokesperson said in an emailed response to Reuters, when asked about Yoon&#8217;s comments.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson didn&#8217;t want to be identified by name.<\/p>\n<p>The Republic of Korea is South Korea&#8217;s official name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to coordinate closely with our ally on additional support for Ukraine,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>A key U.S. ally and major producer of artillery ammunition, South Korea has so far tried to avoid antagonising Russia due to its companies operating there and Moscow&#8217;s influence over North Korea, despite mounting pressure from western countries for weapons supply.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by David Brunnstrom in Washington, Writing by Ju-min Park; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/us-to-coordinate-with\/file-photo-american-and-south-korean-flags-at-yongin-south\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3J034-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3J034-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; The United States will continue to coordinate closely with South Korea on more support for Ukraine, calling its key Asian ally &#8220;a stalwart partner&#8221; in defending Ukraine&#8217;s sovereignty, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said. In an exclusive interview with Reuters, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said the country might go beyond humanitarian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3J034-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17022,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17020\/revisions\/17022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}