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North Korean soldiers kill themselves to avoid capture in Ukraine, U.S. says

www.nbcnews.com North Korean soldiers kill themselves to avoid capture in Ukraine, U.S. says

North Korean troops are being treated as “expendable” and ordered to take on “hopeless assaults against Ukrainian defenses,” National Security Council official John Kirby said.

North Korean soldiers kill themselves to avoid capture in Ukraine, U.S. says

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

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