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Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
1. The text given manipulatively stitches together two different parts of Lee Jae-myung’s statement. The main headline—that the President of South Korea allegedly directly called Zelensky “a murderer and a traitor”—does not match the context of the post.
2. What the President of the Republic of Korea actually said: "The Ukrainian side made this public, violating the non-disclosure agreement. I don't know what circumstances they had, but it's very regrettable."
3. In that same longer post, Lee Jae-myung was also arguing with the South Korean opposition, which asked why the Seoul government hid the arrival of the prisoners from its own people. It said: "A person who, for their petty gain, harms someone’s life, national interests, and security is called a murderer or a traitor to the homeland." However, this was not about Zelensky.
You take one sentence about the Korean opposition, attach it to another sentence about Ukraine—and you get a great Facebook headline: "The President of South Korea called Zelensky a murderer and a traitor."
Except the President of South Korea did not say that.
4. The Republic of Korea does not recognize the DPRK (North Korea) as a separate state. It is territory temporarily occupied by the communists. Accordingly, North Korean prisoners are citizens of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) from territories occupied by the communists.
5. What is the problem? That the Kim regime holds the families of all citizens it sends on overseas assignments hostage. In the DPRK there is a caste-like system, but the castes are formed according to citizens’ loyalty to the authorities.
An attempt to escape or disobey can have consequences not only for the individual but also for their relatives. This can mean loss of job and housing, forced relocation, interrogations, prison camps, etc. This system is called "songbun." Therefore, publicly reporting that specific North Korean soldiers did not return to the DPRK but ended up in South Korea potentially creates risks for their families.
— journalist Vladyslav Bovsunovskyi about the text that is now being circulated online, where the President of South Korea Lee Jae-myung allegedly claimed that the non-disclosure agreement was violated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The reference is to Zelensky’s statement at the UN General Assembly that Ukraine handed over to South Korea 2 prisoners of war from the DPRK.
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