Ukraine transfers captured North Korean soldiers to South Korea

In a moment that quietly expands the map of a war already straining the boundaries of the familiar, Ukraine has transferred two captured North Korean soldiers into South Korean custody — a gesture that is at once diplomatic, evidentiary, and deeply symbolic. President Zelenskiy's announcement confirms what many had suspected: that Pyongyang's involvement in the conflict is not peripheral but embodied, its soldiers fighting and falling on European soil. The handoff between Kyiv and Seoul speaks to a geopolitical realignment in which old adversaries and new partners are finding common cause acro