Captured North Korean Soldier Says He Did Not Know He Was Sent to Fight Ukrainians
This really is not surprising that the rank and file North Korean Soldiers did not know they were being sent to fight against Ukraine:
One of the two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine this month has claimed that he arrived in Russia without knowing whom he would be fighting, according to another video of his interrogation released by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Earlier this month, Zelenskyy disclosed that his forces had captured the North Korean soldiers in Russia’s western front-line region of Kursk, sharing videos of their interrogation on the social media platform X.
In the latest video posted on Monday (local time), one of the captured soldiers said he arrived in Russia aboard a ship with around 100 others before being transported inland by rail with them.
“Even after coming here, I didn’t know that I would be fighting the Ukrainian people,” the man said in the video in Korean. The video could not be independently verified.
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Hollywood’s gonna take this and make it into a poignant movie about the insanity of war and the horrific misunderstandings that lead to unnecessary conflict. The movie will do well in the US but will mess up pretty much everything about Ukrainian, North Korean, and Russian culture.
Inner North Korean Voice:
Wow. I am screwed. What are my options?
They told us to say we had no idea what was going on, and we just thought this was live fire training.
Or, death to you slavic monkeys at the hands of Dear General’s victorious forces in defense of our Russian brothers!
“So… gosh… see, I just work in the mail room…”