North Korean soldiers kill themselves to avoid capture in Ukraine, U.S. says

These suicides, he said, were “likely out of fear of reprisal against their families in North Korea in the event that they’re captured.”

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service had confirmed on Friday that the North Korean soldier captured the previous day had died.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a statement on Telegram Friday that at least 3,000 North Korean soldiers have died or been wounded in Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces mounted a lightning incursion in August.

The North Korean troops are being treated as “expendable” and ordered by their leadership on “hopeless assaults against Ukrainian defenses,” Kirby said.

“These North Korean soldiers appear to be highly indoctrinated, pushing attacks even when it is clear that those attacks are futile,” he said.

The exact number of North Korean soldiers who killed themselves to avoid capture is unclear. Zelenskyy said Friday that while “several” North Korean soldiers were captured, they were “seriously wounded and could not be resuscitated,” suggesting that some of them may have also been killed by comrades.

These troops were being sent to fight with “minimal protection,” he said, and were suffering a “great deal” of losses.

I have pretty much ZERO sympathy for Hamas

Now that being said...

I cannot imagine the brainwashing applied to the poor souls that were born into that horrible regime in North Korea - no preaching of the Gospel, no Bibles.....

My father was a veteran of the Korean War - what he had to do, I believe, troubled him his whole life (and took quite a toll on him, too)

sigh

Just like the fanatical Japanese in WWII.

Has there been any actual photo or video evidence of Norks fighting in Ukraine that could be independently verified?

According to White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby

White House paid liar says blah blah blah...