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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Yeah they’ll do that. You gotta make people want to stay

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 hours ago

This is great news. OTOH, these deserters condemned 3 generations of their family back home.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

18 doesn't seem like many. North Korea must have sent thousands

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Around 10k total I think

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

I think I read somewhere 3000 to that unit / region

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I hope they all find better lives and live them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

I just hope they are all single and don't have families left.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

my first thought when nk sent troops was what an opportunity to get out of nk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

NK probably loves the idea of less people?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They aren't going to want those 3000 troops coming back and talking about their time in the west.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

I dunno the NK troops at least appear to have boots, so coming back and telling stories of how the 'western' Russian troops don't even have shoes or ammo is probably decent propaganda for the regime.

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