At the Korean DMZ, Lee Byung-hun once stared down the armies of Pyongyang. Now, they find themselves on opposite sides of another conflict zone
'The whole world should be helping Ukraine,' says Lee Byung-hun, believed to be the only South Korean enlisted with Ukrainian forces. He says this service is a way of 'showing my respect to my heroes,' the western nations that fought in the 1950s to save South Korea from the North.When he was a soldier in the South Korean army, Lee Byung-hun spent much of his three-year service peering across the Demilitarized Zone at the North Korean army on the other side.
Ukrainian and Western officials estimate that nearly a third of the North Koreans have been killed or wounded since they first clashed with Ukrainian troops in early November. That high casualty rate has been attributed to tactics that have In pages from a North Korean soldier’s diary, shared on a Telegram channel used by Ukrainian forces, a highlighted drawing shows how one soldier lures a drone within shooting distance from others.
“I’m just showing my respect to my heroes. The UN, 16 countries, saved South Korea, they saved my country,” he said, referring to the 1950-53 Korean War, which saw U.S.-led international forces liberate Seoul and drive North Korean and Chinese troops back behind what is now the Demilitarized Zone. “Now Ukraine is the same,” Mr. Lee added. “The whole world should be helping Ukraine.
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