Fight until death and, if necessary, transform into kamikaze so as not to be captured: this is the order given to North Korean soldiers lined up to face the troops Ukrainians In the Kursk Russian. Where the battle is raging, and has already cost the lives of at least 300 soldiers Pyongyang2,700 were injured.
To paint the dark picture of the North Korean presence alongside theKremlin army they are the 007’s Seoul in a closed-door parliamentary hearing of the leaders of thespy agency. Among the episodes cited is that of a soldier who, cornered by his Ukrainiansattempted a suicide attack with a grenadeshouting «General Kim Jong Un», before being killed.
According to information from intelligencethe North Korean leader reportedly sent more than 10,000 troops to help in October Fly to fight against Kievin exchange for Russian technical assistance for the programs weapons And satellite of Pyongyang, subject to heavy international sanctions. Added to this are the supplies of artillery shells And short-range missiles. And to strengthen cooperation, a Seoul they are convinced that Kim will soon stop in Flyperhaps already at the end of February.
North Korean soldiers have very little field experience battle and the 3,000 victims between dead and injured in a few weeks are attributable to the “lack of understanding of the modern warfare», including some «attempts to launch ground attacks without supporting fire», estimate the 007. Last Sunday the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky published the video of two North Korean prisoners, then offering his availability for an exchange with Fly. Hypothesis that a Seoul they brand it as a death sentence: «If they returned to Pyongyang they would be executed.”
To confirm the contempt of Kim for his soldiers, the confession of one of the two captured soldiers, who said he had been sent to the front line not to fight a war but as part of an “exercise”. «We have started realistic training, they told us commanders. Then we came under fire, I took shelter in a refuge while my comrades died around me,” said the North Korean soldier.