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” and 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.
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
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.
Capture would be the best thing for them
The article claims that the likely motivation was to protect their families from reprisals.
It’s probably also dishonorable. Even if the regime didn’t do anything to their families the families still lost face. Can’t really go back to their families if they get captured and survive since that basically equals to cowardice and desertion. Japanese culture was like that during WWII. Current day NK culture has a lot of similarities with Japanese culture from before WWII. Like the honor thing and cult like emperor worship.
That's fine and dandy for them, but when their great great grandkids are born into prison camps, they may not view it as worth it. North Korea is fucked.
Yeah. Isn't it sad they buy into what ever shit is telling them it'd be the worst for them?
I want to show this to the next PMP who talks about "bringing on more resources to the project."
So sad being born north korean.
Just a life of suffering and servitude because you're surrounded by people who have been bred to be docile.
They’re probably under orders to do this. Very sad!