N Korean POWs face death at home

AlArabiya English

North Korean prisoners of war would probably face death once they return to North Korea, as the Pyongyang regime fears information from the outside entering the country, London Evening Standard Defense Correspondent Robert Fox says.    #Northkorea #Ukraine

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00:00Ukraine's released videos of what it says are two North Korean soldiers that have been

00:06captured.

00:07One of them, interestingly, says he wants to stay in Ukraine.

00:10And I'm just wondering what you think of that, because some analysts have said that if he

00:14goes back to Pyongyang, he faces a fate that, according to that analyst, is even worse than

00:21death.

00:22Well, it probably would be death, actually.

00:23I think it's quite open speculation that that could happen.

00:29Yes, you've got the very strong point, because with North Korea, when you've got this absolutely

00:38almost science fiction regime there, and it is a military regime with sort of half nukes,

00:45because how effective their nuclear forces is still open to question, but they've been

00:48developing one, there is no doubt, and they have warheads.

00:53The thing that is their weakness is leakage of information, that information could come

01:00back.

01:01So they do not want returnees, and leakage, i.e. conjecture, is one of the biggest problems

01:07for North Korea out of this.

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