North Korea, Ukraine

Defectors offer insight into mindset of North Korean soldiers fighting in Ukraine
All North Korean recruits are taught a song that includes a verse about saving their last bullet for themselves to avoid capture, one former soldier told NBC News.
Zelenskyy says Ukraine ready to trade captured North Koreans for Ukrainian prisoners
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted a video showing the apparent interrogation of two North Korean soldiers captured alive in the war.
Ukrainians said North Koreans are so determined to avoid capture that one tried to take himself out with a concrete pillar
The paratroopers said the already-wounded North Korean ran "headfirst" into a concrete pillar when they tried to load him into a vehicle.
Seoul’s spy agency says North Korean soldiers captured in Ukraine haven’t shown desire to defect
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he’s willing to hand over the soldiers to North Korea, if Kim Jong Un arranges for an exchange with Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia.
Troops captured by Ukraine provide rare glimpse into North Korea’s military
North Korea has not responded to reports of its troops captured or killed by Ukraine forces. It has never publicised the deployment or large shipments of North Korean artillery shells and other weapons sent to Russia to help its war against Ukraine, although they marked the country’s first intervention in a major armed conflict overseas in decades.
North Korean soldiers did not know they were going to russia to fight against Ukraine – South Korea at UN
North Korean soldiers did not know they were being sent to the aggressor country of russia to fight against Ukraine. They were told they were participating in
North Korean soldier captured by Ukraine as it says Russia is trying to hide Pyongyang's losses
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said earlier this month that Russia was trying to "conceal losses" of North Korean troops fighting against Ukraine.
Kyiv and Seoul look to 2 captured North Korean soldiers as potential source for valuable intelligence
Two North Korean soldiers are in custody in Kyiv, bandaged up and under interrogation, after being wounded on the battlefield in Kursk, Russia, over the weekend. Officials in Kyiv and Seoul are hoping they can provide valuable information into a secretive country's military operations.
300 North Korean troops died fighting for Russia; 2700 injured
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has offered to return them to North Korea should its leader, Kim Jong Un, arrange for Ukrainian soldiers to be released.
‘They don’t take prisoners’: How North Korean soldiers are operating in Ukraine
North Korean soldiers have been deployed to fight for Russia, repelling Ukraine’s incursion in the border region of Kursk. CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh gained rare insight into their brutal and near-suicidal tactics,
Third of North Korean troops already wiped out in Ukraine
British intelligence has reported that one-third of the troops deployed alongside Russian forces in Ukraine are already out of action. Pyongyang sent a contingent of 12,000 soldiers to Russia to assist local forces in regaining lost territory in the Kursk region,
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Zelenskyy ‘ready’ to hand NoKor POWs to Pyongyang
KYIV—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is ready to hand over captured North Korean soldiers to Pyongyang in exchange for the return of ...
North Korean soldier shouted ‘Kim Jong-un’ before blowing himself up on battlefield
An elite Ukrainian soldier has revealed how North Korean troops are blowing themselves up with grenades to avoid being ...
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[Column] The faces of North Korean POWs
By Kim Ji-eun, deputy international news editor Article 13 of the Third Geneva Convention, as established in 1949, states, “Prisoners of war must at all times be protected, particularly against acts ...
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North Korea
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Ukraine-Russia latest: Zelensky makes demand for Trump talks to end war as Kyiv shoots down missile attack
Kyiv hits major oil refinery in huge drone attack as North Korea ‘prepares more troops’ - Russia says it has downed at least ...
South Korea’s Impeached Leader Is Indicted on Insurrection Charges
President Yoon Suk Yeol will stand trial along with his former defense minister and others who participated in his ...
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Can South Korea’s Democracy Survive?
The events of the last two months demonstrate the resilience of South Korea’s democracy, which was established in the late 1980s after decades of military dictatorship. But they also underscore ...
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South Korea reports initial findings of Jeju Air crash
South Korea’s authorities investigating last month’s Jeju Air plane crash have submitted a preliminary accident report to the UN aviation agency and to the authorities of the United States ...