South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol drew parallels between North Korea’s invasion of the South seven decades ago and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during a surprise meeting with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky over the weekend.

But while Seoul has drawn comparisons to the Korean War to promote solidarity with the U.S. and its allies before, the implications of Yoon’s remarks likely raised a few eyebrows in both Kyiv and Moscow, where few if any see an all but permanently divided and heavily militarized peninsula as a template for what they seek to achieve.

Indeed, the past year has shown that top-level