South Korea Is Willing to Take North Korean POWs from Ukraine
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South Korea said it’s willing to accept any North Korean soldiers captured in Ukraine who express a desire to defect to the South, an idea that emerges amid reports of thousands of North Korean soldiers sustaining casualties in support of Russian troops.
“North Korean soldiers are our citizens under the Constitution and respecting individuals’ free will is in line with the international law and customs,” South Korea’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.