Kim Jong-un celebrates the North Korean soldiers who killed themselves rather than surrender while fighting in Russia’s Kursk region. He calls them heroes.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday praised soldiers who committed suicide instead of surrendering while fighting Ukrainian troops in Russia’s Kursk region. TASR informs about it according to a Reuters report.
- Kim Jong-un publicly praised North Korean soldiers fighting in Russia’s Kursk region.
- Approximately fourteen thousand North Korean soldiers were deployed in the Russian Kursk region.
- According to estimates, more than six thousand North Korean soldiers could have died in the fighting.
- Many North Korean soldiers committed suicide to avoid capture by the enemy.
- Kim Jong-un described the soldiers’ suicide as patriotism and the highest heroism.
North Korea is estimated to have sent approximately 14,000 troops to the Kursk region. South Korean, Ukrainian and Western officials say they have suffered heavy casualties in the fighting. More than 6,000 North Korean soldiers could have fallen in them.
Self-destruction as heroism
Many of them, given the possibility of capture, decided to commit suicide instead. On the occasion of the ceremonial completion of the monument in honor of fallen North Korean soldiers, Kim called them heroes, the North Korean news agency KCNA wrote on Monday.
“It is not only the heroes who unhesitatingly embarked on the path of self-destruction and suicide to defend the great honor, but also those who fell in the attack on the front lines of the offensive battles,” the leader said. He also called the surviving soldiers patriots.
Frustration and sacrifice
“Those who writhed in frustration at not fulfilling their military duty, instead of suffering the agony of their bodies torn by bullets and shells – they too can be called loyal fighters and patriots of the party,” he added.
