The most of 10,000 North Korean soldiers who have been deployed to the front to join the Russian troops and who think they will return to their country as heroes after the war may be greatly disappointed, as their fate may be live imprisoned abroad.
“There is a good reason why Russia has kept North Korean troops on its territory for now. They have had enough problems with their own Russian soldiers going to Ukraine and realizing that lLife is much better if you live outside of Russia“, expert and author Keir Giles.
Therefore, “Individuals in North Korea unlikely to be allowed to return home now that they have experienced what life is like outside of North Korea, even if it is in regions of Russia itself.
“It would be dangerous for the North Korean regime to allow them to return to pass on the knowledge of what they have seen to others.. Instead, we could see a return to the type of purges that were carried out against the Red Army in 1945 when they returned from Europe. Large sectors were surrounded and sent to the gulags“Adds Giles.
Last week, which includes a mutual defense clausesigned on June 19 by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin