North Korean soldiers kill themselves to avoid capture in Ukraine, U.S. says
North Korean soldiers kill themselves to avoid capture in Ukraine, U.S. says
North Korean troops are being treated as “expendable,” ordered to take on “hopeless assaults against Ukrainian defenses,” National Security Council official John Kirby said.
Summary
The U.S. claims Russia is deploying North Korean soldiers in Ukraine, using them in “human wave” assaults against Ukrainian defenses.
North Korean soldiers are reportedly being treated as expendable, with some choosing suicide over capture due to fear of reprisal against their families.
Ukraine reports significant casualties among North Korean troops, with some allegedly killed by their own comrades to prevent capture.
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They assume other countries treat POW's like NK does.
It's worse they're scared the government will go after their families. It's not fear for themselves.
it's both. they see no positive path to a positive outcome for anyone. and that's the point of the kind of terror regimes like north korea and russia implement. the more terror you keep a person under all the time, the easier it is to give them an apparent strong man who claims to deliver them from the terror he implements
Ironic that the strongman they're fighting for is callously throwing their lives away.
that's what the strong men do. they promise to keep you safe from the terror they implement, but for you to be scared, there must be real risk of your death
That's just how it works.
From the article itself, it sounds more like they're afraid of their families being punished for their failure by their own government; not for how they fear they thesmelves would be treated.
Sadly that's a legit fear for them. NK will torture and murder your whole family over some petty shit.
Nah, they just send the entire family to forced labor camps…
Sounds specifically like torture
Damn that's even worse
Nah, they’re worried they’ll get sent back to NK
The US believed that communists invented mind control because POWs kept coming back as sympathizers.