“ONE LAST BULLET”
North Korea’s deployment to Russia is its first main involvement in a conflict because the 1950-53 Korean Warfare. North Korea reportedly despatched a a lot smaller contingent to the Vietnam Warfare and to the civil battle in Syria.
The US has warned the expertise in Russia will make North Korea “extra able to waging conflict in opposition to its neighbours”.
North Korea’s chief Kim has beforehand hailed his military as “the strongest on this planet”, in accordance with state media. Propaganda movies launched by the regime in 2023 confirmed bare-chested troopers working throughout snowy fields, leaping into frozen lakes and punching blocks of ice for winter coaching.
However a South Korean lawmaker briefed by the nation’s spy company on Monday stated that the numbers of North Korean soldiers wounded and killed on the battlefield suggests they’re unprepared for contemporary warfare, similar to drone assaults, and could also be getting used as “cannon fodder” by Russia.
Extra worryingly there are indicators these troops have been instructed to commit suicide, he stated.
“Just lately, it has been confirmed {that a} North Korean soldier was in peril of being captured by the Ukrainian army, so he shouted for Common Kim Jong Un and pulled out a grenade to attempt to blow himself up, however was killed,” Lee Seong-kweun, who sits on the South Korean parliament’s intelligence committee, stated.
Memos carried by slain North Korean troopers additionally present that North Korean authorities emphasised self-destruction and suicide earlier than seize, he added.
