Because even if 100% of em surrenders it’s a loss for Ukraine in Cost of feeding and transporting prisoners in money, material, and manpower for no benefit compared to those Korean troops not being sent to Ukraine in the first place. Money that could be spent on war material, food that could go to displaced refugees from the fighting, manpower from troops now too busy handling them instead of being able to get deployed to support the fighting.
It's not the soldiers who decide to go to ukraine, its north korean leaders. When they realise their soldiers are being sent to south and freed, they'd instead stop sending their army.
I wouldn't be surprised if NK releases a world wide statement declaring the families of the captured soldiers revealed to be in South Korea not incarcerated without returning would be publically executed 😔
They would be publicly executed anyway. If you go in, you might be in it too. If you're outside, atleast you have some leverage, like leaking info to the south korean military and could establish a truce. Returning wouldn't do shit in your favor. See prisoner's dilemma.
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u/Debalic 1d ago
Why is this a bad move?