#대포밥

[tomorrowusa]

Russia is using North Korean soldiers as disposable cannon fodder. Though this means they're treating the North Koreans the way Russia treats its own troops.

Russia has left wounded North Koreans on the battlefield to die instead of evacuating them for medical treatment. Some of the North Koreans were intentionally executed to prevent them from being taken prisoner by Ukraine.

Like his new neighbor in Moscow, deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Vladimir Putin has little regard for human life – including lives of Russians and North Koreans.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said “several” North Korean soldiers – badly wounded in fighting alongside Russian forces – have died after being captured by Ukrainian troops on the battlefield and he accused Moscow of having little regard for their survival. Zelenskiy, echoing earlier remarks by U.S. officials, said soldiers sent to Russia by Pyongyang are suffering major losses in fighting in Russia's Kursk region. The Ukrainian leader accused Moscow and North Korean “enforcers” of leaving the soldiers unprotected in battle and even executing fighters to prevent them from being captured alive. [ ... ] “Everything is arranged in a way that makes it impossible for us to capture the Koreans as prisoners – their own people are executing them. There are such cases. And the Russians send them into assaults with minimal protection.” He said Ukrainian soldiers had managed to take some prisoners. "But they were very seriously wounded and could not be saved.” The remarks came after South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said that a North Korean fighter had died of wounds suffered before his capture by Ukrainian special operations troops in the Kursk region. "We have confirmed through an allied intelligence agency that a North Korean soldier who was captured on the 26th died a little while ago due to serious injuries," the news release said.

Ukraine should attempt somehow to get word to North Korean troops of what sort of treatment they should expect from their Russian hosts. Although the North Koreans are heavily indoctrinated, their actions on the battlefield could still be affected by what they learn.

It's implied that South Korean intelligence has been cooperating with Ukraine ever since Russia introduced North Koreans into the conflict. The Ukraine/South Korea relationship will be increasingly mutually beneficial.