“Two North Korean soldiers captured in Ukraine are asking to move to South Korea.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Yonhap
Details: The head of a group of North Korean defectors in South Korea is reported to have said that two North Korean prisoners in their 20s wrote such a letter in October when they met with a South Korean documentary producer at a prisoner-of-war camp near Kyiv.
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The letter was sent at the beginning of December.
Verbatim quotes from the letter: “We decided to go to South Korea, considering those who live there as our parents and brothers…
“Thanks to the support of the people in the Republic of Korea, we have new dreams and aspirations”.
The captives also expressed their gratitude to those who said that the current situation in which they found themselves “is not a tragedy, but the beginning of a new life.”
The South Korean government said it had informed the Ukrainian government of its readiness to accept North Korean prisoners if their intentions were confirmed.
Prehistory:
- On January 11, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and the Security Service of Ukraine announced that Ukrainian soldiers had captured two soldiers from North Korea in Kurshchyna.
- SSO fighters showed a video of how they captured and took a North Korean soldier out of Russia. Another Korean fighter was shown by the DSHV.
- The Russian edition “Agentstvo. Novosti” found out that the forged military ID, which was found in the possession of one of the captured soldiers of the DPRK, was issued in the name of a real resident of the Russian republic of Tiwa (Tuva).
- A North Korean soldier who was captured by Special Operations Forces fighters in Kurshchyna confirmed that he had forged Russian documents.
- Zelensky published a video of the interrogation of soldiers from the DPRK who were captured in Kurshchyna, and said that Ukraine is ready to return them to their homeland as part of an exchange for Ukrainian prisoners in Russia.