“I would not like to call this an incident. Let’s say it’s a diplomatic misunderstanding,” said Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha. But the South Korean president definitely sees it as a serious incident, and he has already gone public with it.

“If (Ukraine’s) refusal to acknowledge the facts and issue a public apology continues, we will take additional measures,” President Lee Jae-myung wrote on X. What monstrous misdeed did the Ukrainian government commit to deserve such harsh words from a country that is generally sympathetic to Ukraine’s struggle against its giant neighbour?

Have the South Koreans discovered Ukrainian spies in the Blue House? No, it’s what professionals call a spat. That is to say, two people, two groups, or even two entire countries behaving like four-year-olds arguing over who’s to blame for breaking the toy. We see it every day, we generally deplore it, but we think no more about it. Perhaps we should.

The Seoul-Kyiv spat began with Ukraine taking two North Korean soldiers alive. This was unusual despite the fact Pyongyang has sent more than 10,000 North Korean soldiers to help........

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