Summary
North Korean soldiers supporting Russia in its war with Ukraine are reportedly using suicide tactics to avoid capture, as seen in a recent incident where a soldier detonated a grenade during a Ukrainian operation.
Ukraine claims North Korea has deployed 11,000 troops, with over 3,000 killed or injured.
Defectors and analysts suggest these soldiers are brainwashed into sacrificing themselves for Kim Jong Un and fear being labeled traitors if captured.
Kyiv has offered to exchange captured North Korean soldiers for Ukrainians held in Russia.
Experts warn this deployment may enhance North Korea’s future military capabilities.
unfortunately going to lead to a take no prisoners thing. This is actually what drove the us to use nukes in ww2.
what drive the us to use nukesWhat gave the us the excuse to use nukes
It actually wasn’t. The desire to test and demonstrate the effect of the new weapon before the Germans could get it was the main reason.
Almost like there can be several reasons
We’d already been testing the atomic bomb before the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Also, Germany had already surrendered a couple months before we bombed the Japanese, they were the last hold-out of the war.
Off-Topic but feel like it is important to share this: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/114590-000-A/abgehoert/ (various subtitles are avaible). It is a documentary made mostly of phone calls between Russian soldiers and their families and friends. It is hard to listen and watch, but if you want to really be able to feel what is happening there this is unpararelled.
I mean… the obvious solution if this is actually a prevalent pattern for NK troops is to assume they’re bullshitting when they try to surrender, and just don’t take them prisoner.
