North Korean troops used as ‘human mine detectors’ in Ukraine as they death march in single file until one gets blown up
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NORTH Koreans are being made to file through booby-trapped fields and blown up one-by-one like human mine detectors, a Ukrainian Colonel has revealed. In the first account of close-up combat with North Koreans, Lieutenant Colonel “Leopard” said the troops are being used for Russia's “meat grinder” strategy where the commanders are “unfazed by loss of life”.
![[Aerial view allegedly showing North Korean soldiers in Plekhovo, Kursk region.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/17f54f08-aebf-4bd7-b70a-236d847a6cac.jpg?strip=all&w=731)
“They just walk in single file, three to four metres from each other, if one is blown up, then the medics go behind to pick up the dead, the crowd continues one after another. “That’s how they pass through minefields," he said. There is a developing pattern of North Koreans being been sent on these effective suicide missions by the Russians.
![[North Korean soldier taking cover behind trees in snowy terrain.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-shows-number-men-taking-958207892.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Footage emerged recently of Kim Jong-un’s fighters being sent to jog through snowy no-man’s-land and fatally soak up Ukrainian ammo. On a battlefield in Kursk, some two dozen men thought to be North Korean fighters huddle together before jogging out towards enemy lines.
![[Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin shaking hands.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/russian-president-vladimir-putin-right-945054178.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Ukrainian veteran Vitaliy, 35, told The Times it was "like a dream for our mortars and machine gunners". A dairy found on a dead North Korean soldier also illuminated the twisted sacrificial mentality that has been drilled into them by officials. One entry read: "Defending the homeland is a sacred duty of every citizen and the highest mission.".
![[Map showing North Korean troops' deployment on the Russia-Ukraine frontline near Kursk.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/download.jpg?strip=all&w=789)
