North Korean troops are being treated as “expendable” and ordered to take on “hopeless assaults against Ukrainian defenses,” National Security Council official John Kirby said.

These suicides, he said, were “likely out of fear of reprisal against their families in North Korea in the event that they’re captured.”

  • Valmond@lemmy.world
    22·
    5 days ago

    So if they capture them alive, they’ll probably state that they killed themselves …

    • Vytle@lemmy.world
      41·
      5 days ago

      Its possible this is already what happened, and this article is the coverup statement.