On March 19, a delegation from the New Europe Centre (NEC) of Ukraine visited the Korea Institute for Maritime Strategy (KIMS). It was NEC’s second visit to the KIMS since 2025. The KIMS was represented by VADM (ret.) Taeho Won (President.), Samman Chung (Director), Seung Mo Kang (Research Fellow), and Jae Hyeok Lee (Associate Researcher); and the NEC was represented by Nataliya Butyrska (Senior Fellow of NEC), Mykhailo Samus (Director of New Geopolitics Research Network), Krystyna Zeleniuk (Associate Fellow of NEC), and LTC Andrii Zhytko (Armed Forces of Ukraine). The two parties shared the progress of Russo-Ukrainian War around the Black Sea, as well as the impacts of the War in Iran and Russia-North Korea alignment to South Korea and Ukraine’s national security. The two institutes concluded the roundtable with an agreement to continue mutual cooperation.
