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Russians ‘told to kill North Korean troops' in Ukraine as Putin gets desperate (www.express.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or better yet, just withdraw and go home?

Numerous testimonies of North Korean defectors confirm the practice of kin punishment (연좌제, yeonjwaje literally "association system") in North Korea, under which three to eight generations of a political offender's family can be summarily imprisoned or executed. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_punishment#North_Korea

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I meant that if Russia and NK can't afford to keep troops on the front, then they should withdraw and send them home. Not that individual soldiers should defect and return to their homes. That would be incredibly stupid, since it's probably punishable by execution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I meant that if Russia and NK can’t afford to keep troops on the front, then they should withdraw and send them home.

Both can afford North Korean soldiers just fine. There are suggestions that North Korea gets missile technology designs and North Korea sends disposable soldiers and old, rusty equipment.