A starving North Korean soldier risked his life when he refused to drop a sausage when Ukrainian forces ordered him to surrender.
Earlier this month, President Zelensky confirmed that two North Korean soldiers fighting on the front lines for Putin had been captured alive and taken to Kiev.
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The Parachute Regiment responsible for receiving one of the men described the desperation of the soldier who refused to drop his food even when he was held at gunpoint.
Ukrainian special forces shared in a video that the injured soldier refused to put down the sausage he was clinging to while his comrade attempted to commit suicide by crashing into a pole.
Ukrainian forces claimed that the duo then asked their kidnappers if they could watch Korean romantic films.
One of the hijackers from the Ukrainian 95th Air Assault Brigade recalled the incident in an interview: “He was lying there, with his head on his arm wounded. He had a grenade, a knife and a sausage.
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“I asked him to drop everything, but he refused to drop the sausage because it was food, so we let him keep it.”
The two men captured on January 11 were the first North Korean soldiers captured alive by Ukraine.
Kim Jong Un's forces are known to do everything they can to avoid becoming prisoners of war, which is why one of the captured men crashed into a pole when outnumbered by Zelensky's soldiers.
In a message attached to the video, the general said: “It is no secret that North Korean soldiers do not surrender to captivity. They are ready to commit suicide just to avoid falling into the hands of Ukrainian soldiers.”
Another paratrooper explained how the second soldier was desperate in the trench when he was captured.
He said: “We were accompanying him to the road where there were some concrete columns…and suddenly he ran and hit his head on the column.”
The North Korean lost consciousness due to his actions, but later “calmed down” after receiving medical care and food.
A Ukrainian soldier named Pavlo added that he relaxed so much that the homesick soldier asked his captors to “play romantic movies for him in Korean.”
Since October 25th more 12 thousand North Korean soldiers They were taken from their homeland Sent to Russia To bolster Putin's dwindling forces.
But the Russian tyrant was repeatedly accused of using it Men as well Cannon fodder In the Kursk region while poorly prepared forces were fighting “Unfamiliar battlefields.”
Officials have warned that all of Kim's soldiers could be out of the war in just 12 weeks, with Putin sacrificing around 100 soldiers a day.
North Korean forces have been constantly in the meat grinder of Putin's war with reports about the soldiers Being for File through booby-trapped fields They are detonated one by one like human mine detectors.
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Buffalo native Serhi added to these claims, noting in the video that Kim's forces had no tactics to win the war.
“They are trying to crush us with numbers,” he said. “There is no special tactic.”
“They are fighting like a Soviet army. They did not retreat until the last critical moment when our reinforcements arrived, and we outnumbered them.
“By then, they already had wounded and dead.”
But it seems that despite the heavy losses, Kim is planning to Send more troops To the front lineaccording to A South Korean intelligence report.
This comes as Putin resorts to desperate measures to keep Russians in line with his regime.
Shocking footage has revealed baby-faced soldiers as young as six being handed weapons and told to “kill the damned Ukrainians”.
I was a North Korean soldier – troops will be used as 'human shields'
By James Halpin, foreign news correspondent
A former North Korean soldier said troops in Russia would be looking to escape the battle in Ukraine “from the beginning”.
Speaking to The Sun before North Korean troops were deployed to Ukraine, Hyun Seong Lee, a soldier in Kim's army in the early 2000s, said soldiers in North Korea would have to go to war.
He said they would be young, so they wouldn't be committed to fighting.
“It will be individuals at first, but over time, I think there will be a greater number of collective defectors, including officers,” he said.
This is because, Lee says, the Russians will likely treat them as “expendable” and even worse than their own forces.
“Russian soldiers do not respect them as fellow warriors,” he said
“They will treat them as their human shields.”
Eventually, the North Koreans will realize the hierarchy and how the Russians view them as “disposable” and will look to flee, Lee said.
He added: “I think they will die without a trace.”
“Putin and Kim Jong Un expect more from them… They will not get the results they expect.”
“So, [troops will be told] “Do not pick up any materials from the Ukrainian government or in the South Korean language” and “they.” [claims in the propaganda they hear] “It's all fake”, “It's not true” if someone defects, or “If you get caught, you will be tortured”.
But Lee believes the soldiers would be vulnerable to any psychological operations used by the Ukrainian government to try to get troops to defect.
He added: “I would say that if the Ukrainian government implemented a psychological strategy against North Korean soldiers, the chances would be really great.” [of defection] Because they have no real motivation. It's not for the money, is it? They don't get paid.
“And it clearly is [their motivation] Don't defend your country, then your parents, and yourself. “So it's just a matter of them being mobilized by North Korea's supreme leader, Kim Jong Un.”
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