Summary

North Korean soldiers supporting Russia in its war with Ukraine are reportedly using suicide tactics to avoid capture, as seen in a recent incident where a soldier detonated a grenade during a Ukrainian operation.

Ukraine claims North Korea has deployed 11,000 troops, with over 3,000 killed or injured.

Defectors and analysts suggest these soldiers are brainwashed into sacrificing themselves for Kim Jong Un and fear being labeled traitors if captured.

Kyiv has offered to exchange captured North Korean soldiers for Ukrainians held in Russia.

Experts warn this deployment may enhance North Korea’s future military capabilities.

  • @NOT_RICKEnglish
    8•17 hours ago

    I find it disingenuous to call Ukraine the tip of the spear when they’re the country being invaded. They’re more of a shield for the rest of Europe than anything. No amount of hand wringing about Victoria Nuland changes the fact that Russia started this war when they invaded a sovereign nation that voted for their own independence not all that long ago, Crimea included.

    • @TokenBoomerEnglish
      -7•15 hours ago

      You seem to want to have a discussion about the merits of the war. My original comment was to bring awareness to the dis/misinformation from western media sources. We can discuss the invasion, but it might help to have some context:

      A number of former US ambassadors to Moscow have also warned, at stages, about the dangers. In 1997, it was Jack Matlock, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. At the time, the Clinton administration’s recommendation to enlarge NATO membership was considered “misguided. If it should be approved by the United States Senate, it may well go down in history as the most profound strategic blunder made since the end of the Cold War.”

      Eight years later, William J. Burns, then still ambassador to Russia and currently director of the CIA, shot a number of flares on the issue: “Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin).”

      This 37 second YouTube video shows that even Joe Biden knew it could lead to war. In 1997, he warned that NATO expansion into Baltic States could cause a response.