Ukraine military drops leaflets urging North Korean troops to surrender

[ad_1] The Ukrainian navy is dropping Korean-language leaflets urging North Korean troops preventing on Russia’s aspect of the struggle to “Give up at present and be a part of South Korea tomorrow,” Radio Free Asia has realized.

The leaflets seem in a video shared on the Telegram social media web site by InformNapalm, a company that has been reporting on the scenario in Ukraine.

In the meantime, the Ukrainian web site evocation.data additionally revealed on Telegram proof that North Korean troopers are supplied with Russian ID, prone to disguise their nationality within the occasion they're killed.

The 2 social media posts are amongst many stories of North Korean participation within the struggle, which Pyongyang and Moscow haven't outwardly confirmed.

A Ukrainian NGO group revealed video on Telegram that exhibits drones carrying leaflets urging North Korean troops preventing for Russia to give up. InformNapalm’s leaflet video exhibits a drone with a digital camera flying the leaflets over a wooded space. A caption in Ukrainian says, “Leaflets are dropped into the woods the place North Korean troopers are hiding.”

RFA beforehand reported {that a} comparable kind of drone engaged North Korean troops in a battle within the Kursk area, killing 50 of them.

However this time it was simply leaflets. Along with the “give up” leaflet, there’s one other that claims “You’ve been bought!”

A video posted on Dec. 19, 2024, of leaflets to be dropped, by the Ukrainian navy on North Korea troopers, which say "You have been bought." (InformNaplam through Telegram) South Korean intelligence reported that Russia is paying each North Korean soldier about US$2,000 per 30 days, however observers imagine that identical to North Korea’s dispatched staff, a lot of the cash is probably going despatched to the cash-strapped North Korean authorities.

RFA has not independently verified the authenticity of the video.

In line with InformNapalm, as soon as North Korean troopers give up or are captured, their identities are protected and they're supplied with assist to go to South Korea to start out a brand new life, nevertheless it acknowledged that it's nonetheless too early to inform how efficient the leaflet marketing campaign will probably be.