“I betrayed my Party”: Ukrainian forces publish diary of dead North Korean soldier

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/12/28/7491107/

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  2. >I betrayed my beloved Party, which had placed its trust in me, and committed acts of ingratitude against the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.

    >The sins I’ve committed are unforgivable, but my homeland has given me a chance for redemption, a fresh start in life.

    It sounds like he did something wrong so he was asked to go to Russia to serve his country and he saw it as a path for redemption.

  5. Young North Korean soldier ordered to go to foreign country and die for what? Not for defense of homeland but to enrich the coffer of Dear Leader Kim and be cannon fodder for Putin.

  6. Two birds, one stone for Kim Jong Un. An opportunity to “help” Putin in exchange for cash/nukes/resources, while shipping undesirables and/or their relatives abroad to be used as cannon fodder and as a threat to those remaining behind. Sort of like Castro emptying prisons and mental hospitals in the Mariel boatlift except throwing them into heavy artillery fire instead of the ocean.

  7. 10K NK soldiers fighting for several month and blurry photo with alleged diary is what they can show us. Yup, looks legit. Very real. Guess all armies in the world should read that famous “The Art of being Invisible” book by Kim Jong Un.

  8. You can betray the Party in NK simply by not saving a pic of Dear Leader from a house fire. This guy’s transgression could’ve been relatively mundane

  10. A dead cultist. Couldn’t be helped, he was brainwashed from birth.

  11. This is devastating to read. This man was clearly brainwashed and literally died for a Russian man’s vanity. There isn’t a level of hell deep enough for Putin.

  12. He talks about how he betrayed the party and this was his chance to redeem himself. I wonder if he was a prisoner before coming to Russia.

  14. For those questioning how these soldiers can be so brainwashed, just remember how propaganda works so well that Americans elected Trump again

  15. Thats not a diary. Thats a russian passport, and on closer inspection looks like it says it belongs to a Tuvan fighter. Tuva being an east asian republic inside of russia. This is not a north korean. Where do you get your sources, TMZ?

  16. Bro probably got drafted for play to much Minecraft on his Party-issued PC. Now he’s out here dying for nothing. Wild

  18. Human beings are some weird things

    Culture is so weird how you can be so steeped in a community ideology or even religion and be obsessed with it when people even on the other side of the same peninsula as yours have never heard and don’t care about it

  19. Insanely depressing, senseless waste of life over made up lines on a map.

    Might be too high atm but just imagining if we could spend the same amount of resources into figuring out how to make life on earth more sustainable makes me sad.

  20. So all the soldiers being sent are people who have been deemed as disgraces to the party. Probably labeled that to get the fodder ready.

  21. So if this is real, it would appear that at least some of the “elite forces” being sent by NK are soldiers that are being punished. Why is that not surprising? Also, the amount of brainwashing these poor souls have been raised with is truly saddening. It’s hard to fathom a worse being than Putin, but Kim Jong Un may be it.

  24. Seeing this made me realize that these soldiers likely don’t know universal sings of surrender. Hands up, white flags… There very well might be nobody that has told them.

  25. > In the previous (second) entry, he described how to hunt drones using live bait. One soldier distracts the drone while two others track it.

    Seems like the NK troops are just there to counter the drones by being a target

  26. What are the odds every captured/killed N. Korean soldier has a similar/same diary???

  27. Those North Korean troopers had to be dispatched since they must unconditionally follow their almighty leader Kim’s announcement. His order is the rule and principle in North Korea. North Korean people don’t have any options to stay alive.

  28. I guess he got his wish.

    To show the world the invincible courage and sacrifice of the Red Special Forces (Red Commanders) of Kim Jong Un.

  29. They were sold to the Russians as “elite soldiers,” not because they really were elite soldiers. By going out into the world, they were essentially contaminated, and wouldn’t be allowed to be integrated back into the Nork military.

  30. I am so sad for this person. I really am. Forced into a war as cannon fodder, thinking his sense of duty would preserve. Knowing disobedience means torture and death to everyone he cares about.

    In order to kill people that only wish to determine their own fate and preserve their culture.

    What a senseless heartbreaking death.

    Russia needs to end this madness. The age of Empires is only a video game now. Give up this futile nonsense.

    You tried to starve and subjugate Ukraine in my Grandmother’s era, well guess what? She dragged your enormous stone tortoise around the town square when she was 10.

    You will never kill such spirit. It passes down through blood. Слава Україні!

  31. It’s crazy how so many people are brainwashed so easily….

  32. The entry was one of the last things he wrote before he died.

    It reads:

    “I, having left my homeland, on unfamiliar Russian land, send birthday congratulations to my friend, Song Ji-Myung (Yong). I wish you health.”

  33. Are Ukrainians using North Koreans for target practice?

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