{"id":6384,"date":"2025-01-15T14:17:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T19:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=6384"},"modified":"2025-01-15T14:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T19:17:33","slug":"seouls-spy-agency-says-north-korean-soldiers-captured-in-ukraine-havent-shown-desire-to-defect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2025\/01\/15\/seouls-spy-agency-says-north-korean-soldiers-captured-in-ukraine-havent-shown-desire-to-defect\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul\u2019s spy agency says North Korean soldiers captured in Ukraine haven\u2019t shown desire to defect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link to article: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-korea-soldiers-capture-ukraine-russia-defect-141433c872649d55358748b179781758\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-korea-soldiers-capture-ukraine-russia-defect-141433c872649d55358748b179781758<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine\u2019s forces have captured two\u00a0North Korean soldiers\u00a0fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia\u2019s Kursk border region. \u201cOur soldiers have captured North Korean soldiers in Kursk. These are two soldiers who, although wounded, survived, were taken to Kyiv, and are communicating\u201d with Ukrainian security services, Zelenskyy said in a post on the Telegram messaging app. \u201cIf Kim Jong Un even remembers these citizens of his and is capable of organizing an exchange for our warriors being held in Russia, we are ready to transfer such soldiers. Undoubtedly there will be more POWs from North Korea,\u201d Zelenskyy said in an address late Sunday. He said in a separate posting on the social media platform X that \u201cthere may be other options\u201d for North Korean prisoners who don\u2019t wish to go back. South Korea\u2019s spy agency told lawmakers on Monday that\u00a0two North Korean soldiers\u00a0who were captured by Ukrainian forces while fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia\u2019s Kursk border region haven\u2019t expressed a desire to seek asylum in South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This article is important because it shows how North Korea sending their own soldiers may lead to problems. Seoul\u2019s spy agency believes that about 300 North Korean soldiers have died and another 2,700 have been injured while fighting against Ukrainian forces. I find it interesting that the North Korean Soldiers have shown no desire to defect, and will most likely be sent back to North Korea in a prisoner exchange, if North Korea is willing to negotiate one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This article relates to what we learned in class because it shows how powerful the idea of constructionism and shared identity is that these North Korean soldiers wish to return to North Korea even when they have the option to defect. I wonder if this is a widespread opinion in the North Korea military.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link to article: https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-korea-soldiers-capture-ukraine-russia-defect-141433c872649d55358748b179781758 According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine\u2019s forces have captured two\u00a0North Korean soldiers\u00a0fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia\u2019s Kursk border region. \u201cOur soldiers have captured North Korean soldiers in Kursk. These are two soldiers who, although wounded, survived, were taken to Kyiv, and are communicating\u201d with Ukrainian security services, Zelenskyy said in a post on the Telegram&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2025\/01\/15\/seouls-spy-agency-says-north-korean-soldiers-captured-in-ukraine-havent-shown-desire-to-defect\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6399,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions\/6399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}