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
The excuse (at least given to the public) was that using the nukes would save the lives of allied soldiers. The Japanese army was more than willing to fight to the death, and Japanese citizens had been brainwashed into believing allied soldiers would rape, torture, and kill them. So in their eyes it was also better to fight the allies if they were able to.
I know.
The problem is that they felt the need to bomb two massive cities full of non combatant people instead.
In war though the tradeoff between your own people and theirs always lands on theirs ultimately.
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