“Ukraine is ready to hand over Kim Jong Un’s soldiers to him if he can organize their exchange for our fighters who are being held captive in Russia,” Zelensky said in a social media post late Sunday, referring to the North Korean leader.
Zelensky added that “for those soldiers who do not wish to return” to North Korea, “there may be other options available.” He did not provide further details, other than to say that “those who express a desire to bring peace closer by spreading the truth” about the war in Ukraine “will be given that opportunity.”
“There will undoubtedly be more” North Korean soldiers captured, he said.
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Assuming they even want those soldiers back. That would mean they give a shit.
They probably do, because they wouldn’t want those soldiers talking about what their life (and the NK military) is like.
Plus NK can send them back to Russia to be deployed again and charge more for an experienced soldier.
“You’re being redeployed. Also to recoup the costs of your lost equipment, your family will be repaying us in labor camps. We STRONGLY ADVISE not being caught again …”
Of course they want them back. They’ll probably execute them right away, though.
Real life 40k IG: ill equipped, trained and worked to exhaustion, lied to at every turn by the higher ups and accused of treason if ever captured