The leaflets – dropped from drones onto North Korean positions – read: “Don’t die senselessly! Surrender is the way to survive.” It comes as Kyiv claims almost 4,000 troops sent to the war have been killed
North Korean soldiers appear to be hiding instead of fighting for Putin
Ukraine is air-dropping leaflets onto North Korean soldiers urging them to surrender rather than die fighting for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
The leaflets – dropped from drones onto North Korean positions – read: “Don’t die senselessly! Surrender is the way to survive.” It comes as Kyiv claims almost 4,000 troops out of 11,00 sent to the war have been killed or maimed. Many North Koreans have been treated in Russian hospitals.
The leaflets highlight the threat they face from Ukrainian military FPV drones, which are believed to have killed hundreds of Kim Jong-un’s fighters already.
There are so far no known cases of Kim’s fighters voluntarily crossing no man’s land to surrender, but reports say that wounded North Korean soldiers are often shot dead by their own side rather than allowed to fall into Ukrainian hands.
The terror of drones felt by the North Koreans was shown this week with a video highlighting them throwing Russian pensioners out of their homes in Kursk region, so Kim’s fighters could take cover. Some were even seen hiding rather than fighting. Telegram channel InformNapalm reported: “North Korean soldiers drove local residents (Russians) out of their houses to hide [there].
“Local elderly people were left in the cold, and their homes became shelters for North Korean soldiers.”
Separately, a new extract has been released of a North Korean soldier who died in the war fighting for Putin – Private Gyong Hong Jong – also named Private Jeong Kyung-hong. He revealed that he had been caught stealing from a Russian serviceman.
“While working in the barracks, I thought no one was watching me and put the Russians’ things in my pocket,” he confessed. “My fault is that I did not follow the commander-in-chief’s command and stole an item that belonged to another country.
“This could have caused serious consequences for our commanders. I will no longer trade in other people’s things. I will heroically advance in the forefront and destroy the enemy.”
In an earlier extract the elite fighter – believed to have been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike – confessed to an unknown act of betrayal against the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), and revealed he had “committed ungrateful acts” against Kim which were “unforgivable”.
This is why he was sent to fight for Putin – as punishment. He wrote: “I grew up in the bosom of the blessed party, studied to my heart’s content without worrying about anything in this world,” the fighter penned before he was killed.
“There is more unknown love than known and accepted. I didn’t know how to react to the happiness that surrounded me.
“Since the defence of the fatherland is the sacred duty of a citizen, and the greatest duty is the defence of the fatherland, in which all my happiness lies, I put on the military uniform of the revolution, for the sake of the protection of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. I was blessed with the opportunity to be promoted to Master Sergeant in my company.
“However, I betrayed my own party that trusted me and committed ungrateful acts against the supreme commander. The sins I committed are unforgivable, but my homeland gave me a way to rebirth, to a new start in life.”
