DPRK prisoners of war captured by Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kursk Oblast ask to be taken to South Korea

Two North Korean servicemen in their 20s, who were captured by Ukrainian forces in the Kursk Oblast of the russian federation, have written a letter asking to be allowed to go to South Korea.

The head of a group of North Korean defectors in the Republic of Korea said this, Yonhap reports.

According to him, the letter was handed over in early December through a South Korean documentary filmmaker who visited a prisoner of war camp near Kyiv.

In the letter, the prisoners said they perceive South Korean citizens as their brothers. They also thanked those who assured them that the current circumstances should be seen "not as a tragedy, but as the beginning of a new life."

The letter says that thanks to the support of people in the Republic of Korea, they have new dreams and aspirations.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on January 11, 2025, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, that the Ukrainian Defense Forces took prisoner two DPRK army soldiers who fought against Ukraine on the side of russia.

Recall that in an interview with the South Korean newspaper Chosun, the prisoners said that did not know that they were sent to fight against Ukraine. They thought they were fighting South Korean soldiers.

These North Korean mercenaries had already expressed a desire to go to South Korea.