Starving North Korean soldier refused to drop sausage at gunpoint – then asked Ukrainian captors to watch romantic film
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A STARVING North Korean soldier risked his life by refusing to drop a sausage when ordered to surrender by Ukrainian forces. Earlier this month President Zelensky confirmed that two North Korean soldiers fighting on the front lines for Putin had been captured alive and taken to Kyiv.
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The Paratroop regiment responsible for taking in one of the men has described the desperation of the soldier who refused to drop his food even when being held at gunpoint. Ukrainian Special Forces shared on a video account that the injured soldier refused to put down a sausage he had been clinging on to while his comrade attempted suicide by running into a pillar.
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The pair then asked their captors if they could watch Korean romance films, the Ukrainian forces claimed. One of the captors from Ukraine's 95th Air Assault Brigade recalled the incident in an interview: "He was lying there, with his head on an arm wounded. He had a grenade, a knife, and a sausage on him.
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"I asked him to drop everything, but he refused to drop the sausage because it was food, so we let him keep it.". Both men taken on January 11 were the first North Korean troops to be captured alive by Ukraine. Kim Jong Un's troops are known for doing anything it takes to avoid being prisoners of war which is why one of the captured men ran into a pillar when outnumbered by Zelensky's soldiers.
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