{"id":68539,"date":"2024-12-27T13:03:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T04:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/27\/north-korean-soldier-captured-ukraine-injured-south-korea"},"modified":"2024-12-28T05:32:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T20:32:39","slug":"injured-north-korean-soldier-captured-by-ukraine-forces-says-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68539","title":{"rendered":"Injured North Korean soldier captured by Ukraine has died, says South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of Kim Jong-un\u2019s soldiers to be taken was detained in Kursk region of Russia, according to Ukrainian reports<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/27\/i-thought-it-was-fake-news-secrecy-around-north-koreans-fighting-in-kursk\">\u2018I thought it was fake news\u2019: secrecy around North Koreans fighting in Kursk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s intelligence agency has reported that a North Korean soldier believed to have been the first to be captured while supporting Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine has died after being taken alive by Ukrainian forces.<\/p>\n<p>Seoul\u2019s spy agency earlier on Friday confirmed Ukrainian reports that an injured North Korean soldier had been captured by Ukrainian forces, in what was likely to have been the first capture of its kind since Pyongyang sent combat forces to bolster Russian forces in the war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/27\/north-korean-soldier-captured-ukraine-injured-south-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of Kim Jong-un\u2019s soldiers to be taken was detained in Kursk region of Russia, according to Ukrainian reports\u2018I thought it was fake news\u2019: secrecy around North Koreans fighting in KurskSouth Korea\u2019s intelligence agency has reported that a North Ko&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[221,40,419,222,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-south-korea","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68568,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68539\/revisions\/68568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}