Ukraine produces leaflets, videos to encourage North Korean soldiers to desert

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One department within the Ukrainian intelligence service is trying to get North Korean soldiers to desert with the help of leaflets and online videos.

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00:00Ukrainian military forces are producing leaflets and videos encouraging North Korean soldiers

00:07to desert.

00:10Kyiv's intelligence began their work after news broke that thousands of North Korean

00:14troops joined Moscow's forces in the Kursk border region.

00:19The project originally was aimed at Russian soldiers who didn't want to participate in

00:23the war, but its scope has since expanded.

00:26We all know the conditions of life in North Korea, so a lot of people are thinking about

00:36it.

00:37It could be a chance to escape the regime and to escape to another country."

00:45Leaflets show North Korean forces how to surrender as well as what conditions are like on the

00:50other side.

00:53These leaflets are dispersed either by drone or through projectiles.

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