At least 300 North Korean soldiers killed and 2,700 wounded in war against Ukraine – South Korean intelligence

Even though North Korea and Russia deny their military cooperation, they were apparently North Koreans and captured while fighting in war. They will be recognized as POWs,

said Park Won-gon, a professor of North Korean studies at Ewha Womans University

Most likely, he would be executed upon arrival,

said Oh Gyeong-seob, a senior researcher at the Korea Institute for National Unification, a state-funded think tank

Are Ukrainians good people?" ... Here is good, ... I want to live here."

When asked if he would return to North Korea, he replied with a question ... After the interpreter responded ... he said

This suggests that the regime thinks that there is no legitimacy in Russia’s war,

he said

The prisoner of war has not expressed his intention to come to South Korea."

On Ukraine's recent video release of two wounded North Korean soldiers in Russia's western Kursk region, Lee said

There's nothing we can say at the current stage,

Mr Koo said

When the bait stands still, the drone will stop and it will be shot down,

the soldier wrote in scrawled handwriting, translated by The Wall Street Journal

The current battlefield environment, combined with drones and other technologies, have created situations North Korean soldiers have never encountered before,

Moon Seong Mook, a retired South Korean brigadier general, said

Volodymyr Zelenskyypresident

For those North Korean soldiers who do not wish to return, there may be other options available,

Zelenskyy said in the post, especially “those who express a desire to bring peace closer by spreading the truth about this war” in the Korean language

Dmitry Peskovspokesman

We do not know what is true there, who offered what to whom,

spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters

They did not go there because they wanted to. They went as mercenaries,

said Lee Chul Eun, 38, who spent five years as an intelligence officer with the North Korean military and swam for six hours to flee to South Korea in 2016.

They sent all these young people out, and they will most definitely be sacrificed,

he added

They are being held in appropriate conditions that meet the requirements of international law."

Officials added

By the way, Russia’s former Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu is himself of Tuvan origin

He added

Volodymyr Zelenskyypresident

Ukraine is ready to hand over Kim Jong Un's soldiers to him if he can organize their exchange for our warriors who are being held captive in Russia."

In a post on social media platform X Sunday, Zelensky said

The deployment of North Korean troops to Russia has reportedly expanded to include the Kursk region, with estimates suggesting that casualties among North Korean forces have surpassed 3,000,

South Korean lawmaker Lee Seong-kweun told reporters following a briefing from the intelligence agency

In addition to the first captured soldiers from North Korea, there will undoubtedly be more. It's only a matter of time before our troops manage to capture others,

Zelenskyy wrote on social media

It was also found in the memos carried by those killed that North Korean authorities emphasized self-destruction and suicide before capture, and that soldiers vaguely expect to join the Workers' Party [of North Korea] or be pardoned,

Lee said

Notably, memos found on deceased soldiers indicate that the North Korean authorities pressured them to commit suicide or self-detonate before capture,

he said