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At the unveiling of a towering bronze sculpture of North Korean and Russian soldiers in combat, Kim Jong Un praised troops who chose death over capture while fighting in Ukraine. Ucraina s'impose comme l'un des sujets qui mobilisent l'attention en Romania ce jeudi.

Les faits

• At the unveiling of a towering bronze sculpture of North Korean and Russian soldiers in combat, Kim Jong Un praised troops who chose death over capture while fighting in Ukraine.
• It was a striking and unusually explicit acknowledgment of Pyongyang’s long-suspected battlefield doctrine.
• Analysis by NK News found that two black marble walls inside the complex list 2,288 names of soldiers believed to have died in combat, alongside 271 graves and more than 1,700 compartments for cremated remains.
• South Korean and Western officials estimate more than 10,000 North Korean troops have been deployed to Russia’s Kursk region, with thousands killed or wounded, losses North Korea has not admitted so openly until now.
• According to a transcript published by North Korean state media KCNA, Kim declared that those who “unhesitatingly opted for self-blasting” and suicide attacks had shown the highest form of loyalty, a reference to soldiers throwing themselves on grenades or detonating explosives rather than risk being taken prisoner.

L'essentiel

Dans le détail, it was a striking and unusually explicit acknowledgment of Pyongyang’s long-suspected battlefield doctrine.

Sur le fond, Analysis by NK News found that two black marble walls inside the complex list 2,288 names of soldiers believed to have died in combat, alongside 271 graves and more than 1,700 compartments for cremated remains.

Concrètement, South Korean and Western officials estimate more than 10,000 North Korean troops have been deployed to Russia’s Kursk region, with thousands killed or wounded, losses North Korea has not admitted so openly until now.

Au-delà de ce constat, According to a transcript published by North Korean state media KCNA, Kim declared that those who “unhesitatingly opted for self-blasting” and suicide attacks had shown the highest form of loyalty, a reference to soldiers throwing themselves on grenades or detonating explosives rather than risk being taken prisoner.

Reste à préciser que Kim made the remarks at the opening of a vast new memorial complex on the outskirts of the capital, walking past rows of freshly laid graves before kneeling to place soil into an open burial site.

Le contexte

Reste à préciser que Inside, bronze statuary and black marble walls etched with names surround displays of soldiers’ remains, personal relics and captured military equipment.

À noter par ailleurs : the site, part cemetery and part museum, is the centerpiece of a broader campaign to frame the deaths of North Korean soldiers in Russia’s war on its neighbor as acts of heroism and patriotic sacrifice.

Plus précisément, For months, North Korean state media has offered vivid and often graphic accounts of how those soldiers died.

Dans la foulée, Previous reporting has described troops detonating grenades as they were surrounded, shouting for comrades to stay back before triggering the blast, or killing themselves after being wounded to avoid capture.

À ce stade, In one account, soldiers embraced each other before setting off explosives.

Recherches associées

Plusieurs requêtes connexes accompagnent ce sujet : Gli Stati Uniti si rivolgono alla tecnologia ucraina contro i droni dopo gli attacchi dell'Iran, dicono le fonti • Guerre en Ukraine : nommée il y a moins d’un an par Donald Trump, la chargée d’affaires américaine dans le pays va quitter son poste • Telefonata Putin-Trump: il Cremlino è pronto alla tregua in Ucraina il 9 maggio, per gli Usa è vicino l'accordo Mosca-Kiev • «L’impasse est levée» : le prêt de 90 milliards d’euros à l’Ukraine définitivement validé par l’UE • Leonardo, Avio in netto calo con difesa europeo su speranze pace Iran e Ucraina • Quatre ans de destructions en Ukraine: cessons de gérer la guerre.

À retenir

• It was a striking and unusually explicit acknowledgment of Pyongyang’s long-suspected battlefield doctrine.
• The site, part cemetery and part museum, is the centerpiece of a broader campaign to frame the deaths of North Korean soldiers in Russia’s war on its neighbor as acts of heroism and patriotic sacrifice.
• For years, intelligence agencies, Ukrainian officials and defectors have reported that North Korean soldiers were expected to take their own lives rather than be captured.
• Recherches qui explosent : Gli Stati Uniti si rivolgono alla tecnologia ucraina contro i droni dopo gli attacchi dell'Iran, dicono le fonti, Guerre en Ukraine : nommée il y a moins d’un an par Donald Trump, la chargée d’affaires américaine dans le pays va quitter son poste, Telefonata Putin-Trump: il Cremlino è pronto alla tregua in Ucraina il 9 maggio, per gli Usa è vicino l'accordo Mosca-Kiev, «L’impasse est levée» : le prêt de 90 milliards d’euros à l’Ukraine définitivement validé par l’UE.