Kim Jong Un hails North Korea ‘suicide squad’ troops who blow themselves up earlier than seize
Kim Jong Un has hailed his North Korean troops for “self-blasting” to avoid capture while fighting for Vladimir Putin in the war against Ukraine
Kim Jong Un has revealed that his troops are taking their own lives to avoid capture(Image: KCNA VIA KNS/AFP via Getty Images)
North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Un has sparked horror after gloating that his front-line troops are taking their own lives to avoid being held prisoner in Ukraine. In a chilling admission, the dictator confirmed his troops are under strict orders to choose death over capture while fighting alongside Vladimir Putin’s forces.
The tubby tyrant made the comments during the grand opening of a new memorial museum in Pyongyang, dedicated to the thousands of hermit kingdom soldiers slaughtered in the bloody conflict.
Praising the grim tactics of his battalion, Kim hailed the “extraordinary heroism” of troops who “unhesitatingly opted for self-blasting, suicide attack,” according to the state-run KCNA.
The warmonger claimed his men didn’t want rewards for their deaths, insisting they chose “self-sacrifice through self-blasting” to protect the country’s honour.
The sickening revelation follows reports of the lengths North Korean troops will go to avoid being caught.
In one gruesome incident, a wounded soldier allegedly tried to bite through his own wrists to end his life after being cornered by Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region.
North Korea remains the only outside nation to send boots on the ground to back Putin’s invasion. Experts believe 15,000 troops have been shipped to Russia, with nearly 2,000 already being sent home in body bags.
Only two North Korean soldiers have been captured alive since the deployment began. Kim was joined at the morbid ceremony by Russian Defence Minister Andrey Belousov, where the pair celebrated the recapture of the Kursk region from Ukrainian hands.
Kim described the alliance as “a new history of friendship with Russia written in blood,” branding the invasion a “sacred war to wipe out the Ukrainian armed invaders.”
The two nations are already planning to ramp up their military ties with a new pact spanning until 2031, effectively turning them into a singular war machine. As his soldiers die on the front lines, Kim is using the chaos to test his own hardware.
In 2026 alone, the North has fired off at least seven ballistic missiles, including the Hwasong-11, which has been used to rain terror down on Ukrainian cities.
Meanwhile, UN nuclear chief Rafael Grossi warned last week of a “rapid increase” in activity at North Korea’s shadowy nuclear sites.
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