North Korean POWs in Ukraine want to go to South: activist


FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (centre) meets soldiers taking part in a training exercise in North Korea in March 2024. - AP

SEOUL: Two North Korean prisoners of war held in Ukraine have pleaded to live in South Korea, a human rights organisation told AFP on Sunday (Nov 2).

The prisoners made the request during an interview for a documentary film that the organisation, Gyeore-eol Nation United, helped coordinate.

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