Kim Jong-un praises both fallen and surviving troops in message seen aimed at POWs

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The korea Herald News

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has publicly praised both soldiers who took their own lives in combat and those who survived, in remarks believed to be an attempt at managing psychological fallout from North Korean troops captured in the Russia-Ukraine war. Speaking at a ceremony on Sunday marking what Pyongyang described as operations in Russia’s Kursk region, Kim said, “Those who, in order to defend great honor, unhesitatingly chose the path of self-destruction and self-sacrifice are heroes.”