It also shed some light on the mindset and training of the conscripted North Korean soldiers sent to fight Russia’s war a continent away from their home. Highly disciplined, ready to die but also very young and with little battlefield experience they elicited curiosity and even some pity from the Ukrainian soldiers who captured them during two separate missions on Jan.

The Ambassador of Ukraine to South Korea, Dmytro Ponomarenko, declared Kyiv's readiness to transfer North Korean soldiers captured in the Kursk region to Seoul. The Ambassador of Ukraine to South Korea,

A North Korean soldier captured fighting for Russia in Ukraine last month reportedly made just two requests to his captors - one for water and another for a cigarette