{"id":68995,"date":"2025-01-18T20:22:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T11:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/18\/suicides-new-tactics-and-propaganda-ipads-details-from-captured-north-koreans-expose-new-foe-in-ukraine"},"modified":"2025-01-18T20:22:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T11:22:49","slug":"suicides-new-tactics-and-propaganda-ipads-details-from-captured-north-koreans-expose-new-foe-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68995","title":{"rendered":"Suicides, new tactics and propaganda iPads: details from captured North Koreans expose new foe in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery of two injured servicemen sent from Pyongyang and disguised as Russian fighters blows apart myth that Zelenskyy\u2019s fight is solely with Moscow<\/p>\n<p>The news was sensational. It travelled quickly among Ukrainian soldiers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/08\/ukrainians-ready-for-north-korean-troops-russia-war\">fighting in Russia\u2019s Kursk region<\/a>. \u201cI&nbsp;heard from a friend of a friend,\u201d one officer, Vitalii Ovcharenko, recalled. \u201cThis was half an hour after it happened. My friend said: \u2018We\u2019ve got a North Korean prisoner! He\u2019s in shock but OK.\u2019 I said: \u2018Wow.\u2019\u201d Ovcharenko added: \u201cEveryone wanted a selfie. They wrapped him in a blanket and gave him tea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/12\/ukraines-capture-of-north-koreans-offers-rare-insight-into-russian-alliance-says-zelenskyy\">capture of two North Korean servicemen<\/a> was an extraordinary moment in Russia\u2019s bloody war against Ukraine. The Kremlin has taken elaborate steps to conceal the presence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/08\/north-korea-learning-from-fighting-with-russia-against-ukraine-us-warns\">12,000 elite troops<\/a> sent in autumn by Pyongyang to Russia. At camps in the Far East they were given Russian equipment: uniforms, rifles and fake military documents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/18\/suicides-new-tactics-and-propaganda-ipads-details-from-captured-north-koreans-expose-new-foe-in-ukraine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery of two injured servicemen sent from Pyongyang and disguised as Russian fighters blows apart myth that Zelenskyy\u2019s fight is solely with MoscowThe news was sensational. It travelled quickly among Ukrainian soldiers fighting in Russia\u2019s Kursk re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4583,"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":[221,40,419,222,930,818,3168,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-south-korea","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin","category-volodymyr-zelenskyy","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68995","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\/4583"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68996,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68995\/revisions\/68996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}