"For General Kim Jong -in" and got a grenade: mortals from the DPRK have become a new problem in the Armed Forces - Reuters

Reuters writes about it, referring to the data of special operations of Ukraine. According to the SCO press service, soldiers were not injured after the explosion, but there are no confirmations on Reuters.

According to the authors of the publication, the mentioned case can be considered as one of the numerous evidence - data from the battlefield, the reconnaissance reports and the testimony of the North Korean defectors - the fact that some North Korean soldiers are ready to go to extreme measures during combat.

"Self-reproduction and suicide is the reality of North Korea," said 32-year-old Kim, a former North Korean soldier who fled to South Korea in 2022 and asked only to name the name of repression about his family remaining in the DPRK. "These soldiers who left home washed the brains, and they are really ready to sacrifice themselves for the sake of Kim Jong -in," he added. The former Kim's serviceman helps the NK Imprison Victims' Family Association.

He said he worked in the North Korean military in Russia for about seven years until 2021 - on construction projects to earn foreign currency for the regime. According to Ukraine and the West, Pyongyang placed about 11,000 soldiers to support the forces of Moscow in the western part of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. The Head of the State Council of the DPRK Kim Jong -in calls his army the strongest in the world.

But representatives of South Korea, citing intelligence agencies of the country, stated that the number of wounded and killed on the battlefield of North Korean soldiers indicates that they are not ready for the modern war in which drones are used, so Russia can attract them as "gun meat ".

"It was recently confirmed that the North Korean soldier, while at risk of captivity, shouted" for General Kim Jong -in "and pulled out a grenade to try to blow himself up, but killed him," said Li Son Gwen, who was part of the South Korean Intelligence Committee . The notes brought by the North Korean soldiers also show that the DPRK's authorities advise to suicide the threat of captivity, he added.

Suicide of soldiers or spies is not only a prominent loyalty of Kim Jong -in regime, but also a way to protect the families remaining at home, said Jan UK, a military analyst of the Institute for Political Research asan. According to him, for some North Korean soldiers captivity and departure back to Pyongyang will be even worse than death, said Kim, the North Korean defector and a former soldier. "To become prisoners of war is betrayal. To be captured means to be a traitor.