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.

    • @blackbelt352English
      116•6 days ago

      It’s worse they’re scared the government will go after their families. It’s not fear for themselves.

      • The QuuuuuillEnglish
        58•6 days ago

        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

          • The QuuuuuillEnglish
            17•6 days ago

            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

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️English
      59•6 days ago

      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.

    • queermunist she/herEnglish
      1•6 days ago

      The US believed that communists invented mind control because POWs kept coming back as sympathizers.