Mick Hartley

From the Daily NK:

North Korea is enforcing strict secrecy around casualties among its troops fighting in Russia. A source within the Korean People’s Army’s 11th Corps revealed that internal protocols exist to quietly handle soldier deaths, with families receiving limited details and the public kept entirely in the dark.

“Even when troops perish during training, they are interred on a hill close to their base or cremated, with their families merely informed of their death in the line of duty,” stated the source. “Similarly, troops dispatched to Russia are treated the same way. If a soldier sustains injuries in an accident that render them unfit for combat, they are sent back to North Korea instead of receiving medical care in Russia.”

Daily NK recently reported that the North Korean authorities have conducted intensified indoctrination classes for Storm Corps personnel to prepare them to “give their lives for the supreme leader (Kim Jong Un).” This is to say, the authorities view the soldiers as nothing more than “tools to protect the leader to the death.”

The source told Daily NK that “when North Korean soldiers are unscathed, they are warriors who can fight for the leader and earn funds for the state (as mercenaries), but when they are wounded or killed, the government thinks of them as useless.”

"The public kept entirely in the dark". As ever.