Okay, this is now getting really bizarre. Even assuming Ukraine did violate some kind of agreement not to disclose the transfer of North Korean POWs to the South (which is weird in itself, given that the media, including in the South Korea, had been openly discussing this for months and had seen Kim’s soldiers’ faces in photographs and videos) what exactly explains this increasingly disproportionate response? Apologize -- no, your official apology is not the right kind of apology -- what kind was it supposed to be, and why exactly? -- Oh, really? Then we’ll recall our ambassador. I have absolutely no intention of defending Zelensky or Ukrainian diplomacy, and I can perfectly well believe that they may have done something stupid or made a mistake. But when such a minor incident is so relentlessly inflated into a grand scandal of the age, with this kind of demonstrative dramatic hand-wringing, it does not exactly inspire confidence in the good faith of the “offended party.” This makes it increasingly difficult to avoid the impression that the South Korean leadership is blowing this scandal wildly out of proportion for domestic political reasons and perhaps to score extra points with Kim. No, seriously: Russia is directly training the North Korean military in the most advanced practices of the new era of warfare in Ukraine. It is pouring enormous amounts of money into developing the North Korean regime’s military-industrial complex, and it is directly allowing North Korea to test its missiles and artillery on the battlefield against Ukraine. And official Seoul is busy making theatrical gestures against Kyiv while allowing scarce fuel to be supplied to Russia through sanctioned tankers? Doesn’t anyone else get the impression that somebody here is very clearly focusing on the wrong thing? In today's world, you really want to make Ukraine the bad guy in all this?