Seoul: Top diplomats of South Korea and Ukraine held phone talks Monday to discuss the repatriation of North Korean prisoners of war, Seoul's foreign ministry said. Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul discussed the handling of the two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine with his Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Sybiha, over the phone.
According to Yonhap News Agency, Cho informed Sybiha that the captured soldiers are considered South Korean citizens under the country's Constitution. He further stated that South Korea would accept their defection if the soldiers express such intent, as per the ministry's statement.