North Korea Troops Commit Suicide To Avoid Capture In Ukraine

Russia, in the last months, has been sending “human waves” of North Korean troops into Ukraine.

U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby revealed many of the North Korean soldiers sent to fight against Ukraine had committed suicide.

Kirby stated the suicides were “likely out of fear of reprisal against their families in North Korea in the event that they’re captured.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday announced nearly 3,000 North Korean soldiers have died or been injured in Russia’s Kursk region.

North Korean soldiers kill themselves to avoid capture in Ukraine, U.S. sayshttps://t.co/lPKigBbYh4

— Michelle L. Price (@michellelprice) December 28, 2024

Check out what NBC News reported:

Russia is deploying “human waves” of North Korean soldiers, the U.S. said Friday, and at least one soldier captured by Ukraine died of his injuries.

According to White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby, some North Korean soldiers have taken their own lives rather than surrendering to Ukrainian forces.

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These suicides, he said, were “likely out of fear of reprisal against their families in North Korea in the event that they’re captured.”

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service had confirmed on Friday that the North Korean soldier captured the previous day had died.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a statement on Telegram Friday that at least 3,000 North Korean soldiers have died or been wounded in Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces mounted a lightning incursion in August.

But Russia has since amassed thousands of troops in a counterattack.

North Korean troops kill themselves to avoid capture by Ukraine.

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— AF Post (@AFpost) December 29, 2024

This is so sad, because you know the North Korean government instructed them to kill themselves to keep them from finding out how different the west really is. https://t.co/QmqQFAMKSL

— Christina Dunigan (@ChristinaD9752) December 29, 2024

Per The New York Post:

North Korean soldiers sent to aid Russia in its fight against Ukraine are dying in droves and some of them have even chosen suicide over surrender, according to officials.

More than 1,000 North Korean soldiers were killed fighting in the Kursk region this past week — almost 10% of its deployment to Russia — after generals ordered a “human wave” attack, virtually sending them to their deaths.

“It is clear that Russian and North Korean military leaders are treating these troops as expendable and ordering hopeless assaults against Ukrainian defenses,” U.S. National Security spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Friday.

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