The European Union(EU) has indirectly urged South Korea to provide weapons to Ukraine, while condemning military cooperation between Russia and North Korea. 
 
The European Parliament made the appeal on Thursday, in a resolution adopted at a plenary session in France. 

The resolution called for the EU and its member states to engage with South Korea and seek to “shift its position” on arming Ukraine in order to provide “significant military resources” to aid Ukraine’s defense. 

The resolution also called for accountability for war crimes and violations of international law committed by Russia and its allies, including North Korea, through strengthened cooperation with the International Criminal Court and other judicial bodies. 

This is the first time the EU has mentioned legal responsibility for the dispatching of North Korean troops in an official document. 

The resolution strongly condemned the dispatching of North Korean troops to assist Russia and the testing of new ballistic missiles by Russia, saying these are escalatory steps that represent a new phase in the war and present a risk to Europe’s security.