World leaders considering Korea-style military buffer to end Ukraine war

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, middle, and Russian President Vladimir Putin [AP/YONHAP]

 
U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders have reportedly mentioned establishing a Korea-style buffer zone as a safety assure for Ukraine.
 
Italian each day La Stampa reported Tuesday that the thought of a multinational pressure defending a border buffer zone — modeled after the Korean Peninsula — resurfaced as a serious agenda merchandise throughout latest conferences in Washington, citing European Union officers in a report titled “The Key To Ukraine Peace? A Korean-Style Buffer Zone.”
 
 
America is reportedly reviewing a plan during which EU and multinational troops would guard the safety hall, backed by U.S. army, logistic, and technological assist.
 
The proposal, the report famous, “remembers the sensible, if imperfect, decades-long establishment on the Korean Peninsula.”
 
“This isn’t only a theoretical situation, as London and Paris have already expressed a willingness to ship troops to western Ukraine,” learn the report. “However with out U.S. backing, direct or oblique, such an association would lack any actual credibility.”
 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gestures as U.S. President Donald Trump reacts throughout a gathering on the Oval Workplace of the White Home, amid negotiations to finish Russia’s warfare towards Ukraine in Washington on Aug. 18. [REUTERS/YONHAP]

 
America may present strategic transport, plane and air protection programs. Discussions are additionally underway to introduce a Palantir system that merges satellite tv for pc imagery and drone surveillance with AI to allow real-time troop deployment. The outcome can be a buffer zone monitored each bodily and digitally.
 
Not like the Korean mannequin, the proposed plan wouldn’t contain a everlasting U.S. army base. As an alternative, European forces would keep a floor presence whereas the USA gives technical assist.
 
“Such an answer would not less than partly ease Russian objections to one more formal NATO growth, and it might cut back the variety of personnel required on the bottom,” learn the report.
 
Trump, Zelensky and European leaders beforehand met on the White Home to debate a broader peace plan that would come with safety ensures for Ukraine. They agreed to type a trilateral fee involving the USA, Europe and Ukraine to develop concrete safety measures.
 

President Donald Trump greets Russian President Vladimir Putin on the tarmac at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15. [AP/YONHAP]

 
The Instances of London outlined 4 potential approaches underneath assessment: Britain and France supplying weapons and coaching, with the USA offering air protection and intelligence; European states assuming accountability for air protection and drone surveillance; imposing new sanctions within the occasion of Russian violations; and making a collective protection pledge akin to NATO’s Article 5.
 
Analysts additionally pointed to U.S. alliances with Korea and Japan as potential fashions. Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged that “any sovereign nation on the planet has a proper to enter into safety alliances with different international locations […] not simply NATO,” a comment interpreted as signaling that the Asian alliance construction may inform a future safety framework for Ukraine.
 
“Now we have such alliances with South Korea. Now we have it with Japan, and different international locations have it with one another,” Rubio mentioned, simply hours after Trump’s assembly with Zelensky on Monday.
 
Trump wrote in a Reality Social put up on Tuesday, following the assembly, that he had referred to as Russian President Vladimir Putin after the assembly and “started making the preparations for a gathering, at a location to be decided” with Zelensky.
 
“After that assembly takes place, we could have a Trilat, which might be the 2 Presidents, plus myself. Once more, this was an excellent, early step for a Battle that has been happening for nearly 4 years.”

This text was initially written in Korean and translated by a bilingual reporter with the assistance of generative AI instruments. It was then edited by a local English-speaking editor. All AI-assisted translations are reviewed and refined by our newsroom.
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