June 2, 2026: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un issued an order for wounded soldiers to commit suicide to avoid capture by the Ukrainians. Only about a hundred North Korean soldiers, most of them wounded, have been captured by the Ukrainian forces. South Korea has offered to take in these North Korea soldiers and enable them to settle in South Korea. Not all captured North Korean soldiers want to live in South Korea, because they have families back in North Korea that would be punished.

The Choson inmin gun has been the North Korean military since 1948. During the subsequent 78 years, the North Korean forces have had their ups and downs. Currently 14,000 North Korea soldiers are fighting alongside Russian troops in Ukraine. So far 43 percent of these soldiers have been killed, wounded or missing.

North Korea has contributed substantial quantities of weapons, munitions and personnel to the Russian war effort in Ukraine. The North Koreans are well paid for this and the Russians also offered assistance developing ballistic missiles, air defense systems, warplanes, outfitting North Korea's new warships and much else.