Kyiv’s project "I Want to Live" calls on North Korean soldiers to surrender to Ukrainian forces in the new video in Korean language, as the first Pyongyang troops have arrived in the combat zone in Russia's border region of Kursk.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/25102101

Kyiv’s project “I Want to Live” calls on North Korean soldiers to surrender to Ukrainian forces in the new video in Korean language, as the first Pyongyang troops have arrived in the combat zone in Russia’s border region of Kursk.

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  • Diplomjodler
    25•20 hours ago

    Anybody who is allowed out of NK will basically have their family held hostage. If you defect, your family goes to the gulag for three generations. These guys will probably rather die than risk that.

    • @[email protected]English
      14•19 hours ago

      They could just pretend to be KIA and walk away right? It’s not like the NK government would have the resources to figure out if they defected or simply died and got a field burial.

      • Diplomjodler
        6•18 hours ago

        That would require a pretty massive change of the standard procedures in such cases. But I agree it would probably be for the better in this case.

  • @halcyoncmdrEnglish
    23•20 hours ago

    Probably their easiest way out of NK fairly cleanly if any of them have been thinking about it.

  • abff08f4813cEnglish
    14•21 hours ago

    North Korea already has a high defection rate. This … this is going to do the exact opposite of slowing that down.