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
Ironic that the strongman they’re fighting for is callously throwing their lives away.
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.
Sadly that’s a legit fear for them. NK will torture and murder your whole family over some petty shit.
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.
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.
I want to show this to the next PMP who talks about “bringing on more resources to the project.”
They’re probably under orders to do this. Very sad!
