About 8,000 North Korean soldiers are stationed in Russia on the border with Ukraine, the US secretary of state has said, warning that Moscow is preparing to deploy those troops into combat “in the coming days”.
Antony Blinken said the US believed that North Korea had sent 10,000 troops to Russia in total, deploying them first to training bases in the far east before sending the vast majority to the Kursk region on the border with Ukraine.
Blinken told a press conference that the North Korean troops had received Russian training in “artillery, UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles], basic infantry operations, including trench clearing, indicating that they fully intend to use these forces in frontline operations”.
Ukraine should offer the North Koreans political asylum if they defect.
North Koreans are granted immediate citizenship in South Korea because, according to the South Korean constitution, all North Koreans are South Korean citizens.
They receive a lump sum payout, which has been equivalent to $20,000 USD in the past, though this payout has decreased throughout the years.
Source: https://www.crossingbordersnk.org/blog/refugees-in-south-korea/2020/10/22
They are already not allowed back (except like the generals, who know that the west is actually not a wasteland).
Wait what?! So are they just killed or something?
You just can’t have people from NK coming back knowing that like food rations and any kind of freedom exists. I don’t know what’s going to happen to those who survive.
Except the soldiers probably don’t realize that. On the other hand, if they don’t fight fiercely, or defect even, then their families are held responsible.