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North Korean soldiers kill themselves to avoid capture in Ukraine, U.S. says
www.nbcnews.com ^ | Dec. 28, 2024, 5:42 AM CST | By Mithil Aggarwal

Posted on 12/31/2024 4:54:20 AM PST by airdalechief

Russia is deploying “human waves” of North Korean soldiers, the U.S. said Friday, and at least one soldier captured by Ukraine died of his injuries.

According to White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby, some North Korean soldiers have taken their own lives rather than surrendering to Ukrainian forces.

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These suicides, he said, were “likely out of fear of reprisal against their families in North Korea in the event that they’re captured.”

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service had confirmed on Friday that the North Korean soldier captured the previous day had died.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a statement on Telegram Friday that at least 3,000 North Korean soldiers have died or been wounded in Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces mounted a lightning incursion in August.

The North Korean troops are being treated as “expendable” and ordered by their leadership on “hopeless assaults against Ukrainian defenses,” Kirby said.

“These North Korean soldiers appear to be highly indoctrinated, pushing attacks even when it is clear that those attacks are futile,” he said.

The exact number of North Korean soldiers who killed themselves to avoid capture is unclear. Zelenskyy said Friday that while “several” North Korean soldiers were captured, they were “seriously wounded and could not be resuscitated,” suggesting that some of them may have also been killed by comrades.

These troops were being sent to fight with “minimal protection,” he said, and were suffering a “great deal” of losses.

1 posted on 12/31/2024 4:54:20 AM PST by airdalechief
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To: airdalechief

I have pretty much ZERO sympathy for Hamas

Now that being said...

I cannot imagine the brainwashing applied to the poor souls that were born into that horrible regime in North Korea - no preaching of the Gospel, no Bibles.....

My father was a veteran of the Korean War - what he had to do, I believe, troubled him his whole life (and took quite a toll on him, too)

sigh


2 posted on 12/31/2024 4:58:39 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: airdalechief

Just like the fanatical Japanese in WWII.


3 posted on 12/31/2024 5:00:23 AM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: airdalechief

Has there been any actual photo or video evidence of Norks fighting in Ukraine that could be independently verified?


4 posted on 12/31/2024 5:01:02 AM PST by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: airdalechief
According to White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby

White House paid liar says blah blah blah...

5 posted on 12/31/2024 5:02:13 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Nope! The Russians are also not using open field wave tactics, verified by many videos.


6 posted on 12/31/2024 5:07:45 AM PST by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things! )
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To: SaveFerris

> I cannot imagine the brainwashing applied to the poor souls that were born into that horrible regime in North Korea. <

I once read an article by a Western journalist who was given permission to tour the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. He was accompanied by a NK “guide” (a watcher, actually).

One thing the Westerner noticed is how the North Korean citizens feared being near him. Turns out they are told that most Westerners are cannibals, and cannot resist attacking nearby prey.


7 posted on 12/31/2024 5:08:02 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: telescope115

If you watch some of the North Koreans in action videos on YouTube and Telegram, their basic tactic is a bonzai charge into enemy fire, as soon as they show themselves, they get swarmed by drones, artillery and small arms fire and get mowed down before they make any progress.


8 posted on 12/31/2024 5:13:09 AM PST by srmanuel
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To: Leaning Right

wow, that’s truly sad


9 posted on 12/31/2024 5:14:20 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: AndyJackson

you got that right - that guy is as obvious as many I worked with at Cost-H2Ohome.....(cryptic code)


10 posted on 12/31/2024 5:16:08 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: airdalechief
This is not surprising when wounded Russians kill themselves or each other. Russian front line medical care is close to nonexistent.

Russia is not going to expend any medical care for expendable DPRK soldiers when they can barely take care of their own.

11 posted on 12/31/2024 5:17:56 AM PST by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrayíni! 🇺🇦 ☭ No CCCP 2.0 ☭)
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To: airdalechief

Another “new tactic” used by the Norks is sending one guy from a large group of 20-30 troops running across an open field as bait for UKR drones. As the sacrificed troop is running, the others try to shoot down the drones.

Sadly, UKR artillery finds the group first and clusters the bunched up lot, while the drones finish of the sacrificed runner.

North Korean Human Sacrifice Tactic: Using Human Bait For Drones
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU/videos


12 posted on 12/31/2024 5:17:57 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Sure! And their heads are like 1 pixel in those pics.

I’ve been posting since the beginning of this mess that the first casualty in war is the truth, and that all the sides are lying to us. And there are a lot more than two sides. Nothing has happened to change my early assessment, I stick to it.


13 posted on 12/31/2024 5:23:32 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Leaning Right

Not unlike Ruskies in post war Stalin’s Russia where school children watched American westerns in class and were told that’s what America was like.


14 posted on 12/31/2024 5:26:39 AM PST by LouAvul (2 Sam 23:3: He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. )
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To: Ultra Sonic 007
"Has there been any actual photo or video evidence of Norks fighting in Ukraine that could be independently verified?"

I like the way you think.. :)

15 posted on 12/31/2024 5:28:55 AM PST by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: airdalechief

16 posted on 12/31/2024 5:34:21 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: airdalechief

To Kim getting captured is the same as surrendering. If they surrender, their families die. Which is also the same for Putin. Kim and Putin - cut from the same cloth.


17 posted on 12/31/2024 5:37:06 AM PST by libh8er
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To: Magnum44

Like blazing saddles that movie could not be made these days with scenes like that 😎


18 posted on 12/31/2024 5:37:21 AM PST by blitz128
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To: blitz128

19 posted on 12/31/2024 5:38:30 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: airdalechief

20 posted on 12/31/2024 5:40:01 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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