Documentary shows atrocities faced by N. Korean troops deployed to Russia

A North Korean documentary revealed Monday that North Korean troops deployed to support Russia in the war against Ukraine had been subjected to battlefield atrocities, including death by suicide bombing. North Korea's state-run Korean Central Television aired the documentary Sunday night, featuring images of battles involving its soldiers deployed in the Russia-Ukraine war. The documentary introduced two young soldiers — Yun Jong-hyuk, 20, and Woo Wi-Hyuk, 19 — who embraced each other and detonated a grenade to kill themselves after being besieged by the enemy, describing such suicides as "heroic sacrifices." It also depicted the suicide bombing of another 22-year-old soldier, saying that after being wounded and seeing his comrades rush to save him, he detonated a grenade to kill himself. When the blast failed, he set off another grenade to his head, "heroically" killing himself, the documentary said. The video also showed some soldiers were used as human shields, introducing cases in which they sacrificed their lives to cover landmines or enemy drones during missions to clear a pathWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times