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.
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
Just like the fanatical Japanese in WWII.
Has there been any actual photo or video evidence of Norks fighting in Ukraine that could be independently verified?
White House paid liar says blah blah blah...
Russia is not going to expend any medical care for expendable DPRK soldiers when they can barely take care of their own.
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
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.
Waves and waves of North Koreans but the Ukrainians have not recovered a single body, dead or alive. People, please wake up and endeavor to not be a moron and dupe in 2025.
"Mmmmmmmmmmmm North Korean Liver."
So much propaganda coming out of this war. Usually a sign of losing.
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Oh, JOHN KIRBY SAID. Then it must be true!
Better to have soldiers like them defending us than American “soldiers” like Bowie Bergdahl — and their woke leaders at the Pentagon.
The North Koreans are poorly trained and likely are issued hand me down weapons. Some reports indicate that they like many people in North Korea are malnourished. The Russians are using them for cannon fodder.
Is there any evidence at all of even one North Korean fighting in Russia/Ukraine?
Have they recovered one corpse?
one POW?
any documents or uniforms?
any video evidence?
OR - are we just pushing and promoting a long-term Western propaganda narrative?
How many unwilling Ukrainian conscripts have met that fate thanks to Zelensky? Tens of thousands.
They have still not shown any proof. This whole N.Korean psyop was over South Korean arms to Ukraine, and the F16 pilots. If the North were there, then it would be sellable to the South’s public to arm Ukraine and scoop up the Billions of USD left on the table for weapons acquisition... due to the shortage of NATO produced weapons. South Korea’s MIC is big enough to arm Ukraine for another year - but that didn’t happen.
There are soldiers under thier own banners from Western Russia and many are mongols or Asian. These troops are actually in Kursk.
Zelinski was claiming two weeks ago that the Russians were burning the faces off every dead North Korean before they could recover any bodies.... This theory would support the never-break Ukrainian forces but is a shakey argument that they could not find a single body after Human Wave attacks.
South Korea lost a president over arms to Ukraine.