{"id":174175,"date":"2025-08-25T11:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/174175\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:17:12","slug":"kim-jong-un-weeps-for-north-koreas-ukraine-war-dead-in-display-of-calculated-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/174175\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un weeps for North Korea\u2019s Ukraine war dead in display of calculated grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since its founding in 1948, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/north-korea?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">North Korea<\/a> has openly acknowledged the deaths of its soldiers fighting on foreign soil with a carefully staged ceremony that analysts say betrays supreme leader <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/kim-jong-un?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>\u2019s deepening domestic anxieties.Kim embraced weeping children, affixed medals to portraits of the dead and even appeared to wipe away tears as he honoured more than 100 North Korean troops killed in <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/russia?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a>\u2019s war at the event on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Though 101 portraits were visible in the footage, state media did not confirm how many soldiers had been killed.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the fallen \u201cgreat heroes and patriots\u201d, Kim singled out soldiers who had taken their own lives rather than risk capture, praising them for their \u201cmorality\u201d. His remarks echoed the testimony of former North Korean <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3299334\/north-korean-pow-captured-ukraine-seeks-asylum-south-sparking-potential-domino-effect?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">prisoners of war<\/a>, who have described being indoctrinated to view capture as treason.<br \/>\n<img data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1o401188 css-1w1l3op e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">Kim Jong-un decorates soldiers who fought for Russia<\/p>\n<p>Kim Jong-un decorates soldiers who fought for Russia<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">State television devoted a full day of programming to the sacrifices of troops deployed to the conflict, including graphic battlefield footage that was broadcast late into the night. The images showed soldiers writhing in pain and trading fire with Ukrainian drones, as the narration recounted several cases of troops detonating their own grenades to avoid capture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since its founding in 1948, North Korea has openly acknowledged the deaths of its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":174176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[42127,93293,24529,99175,99178,24531,99176,50,24240,41351,99177,257,15243,15037,273,67,85659,131,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-174175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-dead","9":"tag-hanoi","10":"tag-kim-jong-un","11":"tag-korean-peoples-army","12":"tag-kursk","13":"tag-moscow","14":"tag-national-assembly","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-north-korea","17":"tag-pyongyang","18":"tag-rodong-sinmun","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-south-korea","21":"tag-troops","22":"tag-ukraine","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-vietnam-war","25":"tag-war","26":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115089129185144458","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}