Families of captured North Korean troops 'will be executed,' former Pyongyang soldier tells ABC News

A former sergeant in the North Korean military says that few of Pyongyang's soldiers have been captured fighting against Ukraine because they're told their families will be executed if they are caught alive. "Most soldiers will kill themselves before they're killed by the enemy, it's the biggest shame to be captured," the former soldier, Ryu Seong-hyeon, told ABC News. Ryu defected to South Korea in 2019, running across a minefield in the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas.