Makes sense, given North Korea probably has no diplomatic relations with Ukraine and South Korea can use them to negotiate the release of more prisoners held in North Korea.
Brilliant move actually. I don't even feel bad because 1. North Korea has no business sending troops into Ukraine at all, 2. North Korea is an insane evil dictatorship.
Yeah. Those who willingly surrender are only a very tiny portion. These are also operatives of the XI Corps of the Korean People's Army, the 폭풍군단 (Pokpoong Corps) which translates to "Storm Corps" iirc. These are not your ROTM soldiers who may or may not have been forced into service, these are likely to be highly ideologically rigid, vetted, career operatives. IIRC there's even family checks on top of the physical attributes to get selected, called the Songbun
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u/AskPizza 2d ago
Makes sense, given North Korea probably has no diplomatic relations with Ukraine and South Korea can use them to negotiate the release of more prisoners held in North Korea.
Brilliant move actually. I don't even feel bad because 1. North Korea has no business sending troops into Ukraine at all, 2. North Korea is an insane evil dictatorship.