A NORTH Korean soldier killed on Ukraine’s front line was sent there to punish him for betraying leader Kim Jong Un, it was claimed yesterday.
Master Sgt Gyong Hong Jong, a member of the special forces who was only 27 years old, was one of around 3,000 North Koreans who were either killed or injured while attempting to recapture the Kursk region in Russia.
The fighter’s recovered diary reveals he confessed to an unknown act of betrayal against the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea.
Ukraine’s intelligence service claimed his diary said: “My homeland gave me a way to rebirth, to a new start in life.”
The price of his “rebirth” was to fight for Russia in its illegal “meat grinder” war.
Jong, who died of wounds after being taken prisoner, is the first Korean to be identified.
Russia has never admitted around 11,000 of Kim Jong Un’s troops are involved in the war.
Earlier in the week, The Sun reported on a North Korean soldier’s eerie diary sketches that showed Ukrainian drones blitzing Kim Jong-un’s troops.
The soldier vowed to sacrifice his life by fighting in Vladimir Putin’s war, according to the diary entries released by Ukraine’s military.
Neither Pyongyang nor Moscow have confirmed the presence of the helpless North Korean troops – but evidence has been discovered by Kyiv’s forces.
The Ukrainian military shared photographs of a diary that was found on a deceased North Korean soldier in the Kursk battle area in Russia. This is the same region where Zelensky’s forces carried out a surprise border invasion in August.
These pages revealed the twisted Kim Jong-un abiding mindset this ill-fated soldier had.
