North Korea is encouraging its soldiers deployed in Russia to fight against Ukraine to commit suicide to avoid capture, a South Korean lawmaker reported Monday, citing Seoul’s intelligence service.
While several thousand North Korean soldiers were sent to Russia by the Pyongyang regime to support Vladimir Putin in his war in Ukraine, the latter are reportedly instructed not to be captured, at all costs, even if it means committing suicide. , according to South Korean intelligence.
“Notes found on dead soldiers indicate that North Korean authorities pressured them to commit suicide,” including “blowing themselves up before capture,” Lee Seong-kweun told reporters. relaying information from South Korean intelligence.
300 dead soldiers
In total, some 300 North Korean soldiers were killed out of the thousands deployed by Pyongyang in Russia to support its war against Ukraine, a South Korean lawmaker said Monday, citing Seoul’s intelligence service.
“Estimates indicate that the number of casualties among the ranks of North Korean forces has exceeded 3,000, including about 300 deaths and 2,700 wounded,” Lee Seong-kweun told reporters after a South Korean intelligence briefing.
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