New footage shows North Korean troops killed by Ukraine - revealed they were ordered to kill themselves rather than be captured

New footage is said to show the corpses of more than a dozen North Korean soldiers sent to die as 'cannon fodder' in Vladimir Putin's grueling war against Ukraine.
The bodies that are said to have been "liquidated" from Ukraine are seen in the footage shared with the international intelligence community InformNapalm, foreign media write, Telegraph reports.
The Ukrainian OSINT group said the video "confirms that the Russian command continues to massively use Koreans as cannon fodder for infantry attacks on Ukrainian army positions."
The North Koreans were sent "ahead of Russian units" to attack front-line positions" in Russia's disputed Kursk region amid a fierce Ukrainian offensive.
Earlier reports said the faces of the corpses had been deliberately disfigured - including by burning - to prevent their identification.
Ukraine and South Korea reported late last year that North Korea had sent at least 10,000 troops to support Putin's war effort as Ukraine began to make gains inside Kursk.
About 300 North Korean soldiers are believed to have been killed, with another 2700 wounded, in the fighting so far, South Korean lawmaker Lee Seong-kweun told reporters.
He added that Pyongyang's troops have been told to kill themselves before allowing themselves to be captured alive.
This came as Kiev took steps to exchange captured bodies for Ukrainian soldiers, releasing videos of a disoriented North Korean prisoner in Ukraine, unable to answer whether he knew where he was or what he was doing.
Ukraine's SBU security service reported that one of the two captured soldiers told officials they thought they were going to Russia for 'training', rather than fighting.
He was found to have a Russian military ID in the name of another person.
The service said the two men, captured on January 9, are now in Kiev and receiving medical care.
Over the weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kiev had captured two North Korean soldiers, raising the possibility of a prisoner swap for captured Ukrainian troops. /Telegraph/
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