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bloomberg 11 hr ago +405

*From Bloomberg News reporter Cat Barton:* North Korean leader Kim Jong Un confirmed a policy that requires soldiers to commit suicide on the battlefield to avoid capture, while fighting Russia’s war against Ukraine. Speaking at an event to inaugurate a memorial in Pyongyang for North Koreans who have died in Ukraine, Kim twice mentioned soldiers who had “self-blasted,” according to a report by the official Korean Central News Agency. “Heroes who unhesitatingly opted for self-blasting, suicide attack, in order to defend the great honor” were praised by Kim in the speech given to bereaved families and top Russian officials. “They did not expect any compensation, though they performed distinguished feats,” he added. “They died a heroic death.”

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thegoatmenace 10 hr ago +337

“Self-blasting” simply cannot be the most accurate translation. It just sounds so undignified and almost silly.

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Echo4117 9 hr ago +139

self-destruct. The words translates to self explosion

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thegoatmenace 9 hr ago +31

See that’s much better thanks

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J_Class_Ford 7 hr ago +1

I have exploded before.

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whorificustotalus 7 hr ago +1

It's not better because that term is used for machines only. People commit a suicide, they don't "self-destruct".

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psychicsword 7 hr ago +1

It is still better than self-blast which is not a real phrase.

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Peripatetictyl 8 hr ago +1

I drag you down, I use you up, *Ooooohhh*, *Mr Self Destruct!*

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aegookja 8 hr ago +1

I agree. 자폭 (japok) usually translates to "self destruct", not "self blasting".

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Wetalpaca 8 hr ago +1

"self blasting" is unhinged, it sounds like a gooning term

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falsevector 8 hr ago +1

Ukranian soldier - sir, we captured a North Korean! He appeared to have misunderstood what self blasting should mean

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Implausibilibuddy 9 hr ago +35

They KoreAnHeroed themselves.

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ohaiguys 8 hr ago +1

It’s an old meme sir but it checks out

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Donnermeat_and_chips 8 hr ago +1

Budd Dwyer smiles on you

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franklollo 8 hr ago +1

They kill jong un themselves

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TonyTheTerrible 8 hr ago +1

Coined by Ann Hiro

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paradox-preacher 9 hr ago +32

I already use that for something else

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SuperMonkeyJoe 8 hr ago +1

Like the Japanese pilots that launched divine wind attacks at American ships in WW2. Some things just don't translate well.

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Sea_School8272 9 hr ago +6

„The Great Heroic Pink Mist of Korean Heroism“ maybe?

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frank_the_tank69 8 hr ago +3

As silly as killing yourself for this fat turd

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Fresh_Individual5500 10 hr ago +64

Heroic death = no need for prisoner exchange

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SeraphOfTheStart 10 hr ago +36

Or any secrets leaking out from a very secluded country

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ChiefInternetSurfer 7 hr ago +1

Also equals “*we won’t murder or imprison your family.*”

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foul_ol_ron 8 hr ago +1

>They did not expect any compensation Which is probably just as well.

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spidereater 8 hr ago +1

I assume if they are captured their families will be at risk. So more of a stick over carrot situation.

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Mo_Jack 8 hr ago +1

They don't want any POWs because they would tell people what really goes on in N Korea and also beg for asylum.

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Oodlemeister 7 hr ago +1

“Please do not get captured by people who will treat you fairly as a POW and perhaps give you asylum and a better life. Much better for you to kill yourself instead…for the good of the country.”

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hughranass2 7 hr ago +1

Self blasted? And what great honor are they defending in a war that really has nothing to do with them? I'm not sure what this guy is trying to prove. Other than that Ukrainian forces are really good at killing.

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OrangutanFirefighter 7 hr ago +1

This is the year f****** 2026 how come we still have humans that get brainwashed into self blasting to make psychopaths happy. Ffs

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COYSBannedagain 10 hr ago +500

So anyways, I started self blasting

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santathe1 8 hr ago +1

I self blasted last night.

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Ambitious_Wolf_3116 7 hr ago +1

Last night? Amateurs. I'm blasting right now typing this

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elvenmaster_ 7 hr ago +1

I read that with NileRed's voice. Should I expect an episode where he makes some Apple cider using self-blasted NK soldiers ? Edit : stealth autocorrect is c***.

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philonrapist 7 hr ago +1

I hope you're doing that in pirate

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jetklok 7 hr ago +1

You're just mashin it now

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tanaephis77400 11 hr ago +168

Piece of shit. Go on Kim, you first !

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haltmeinmaul 11 hr ago +36

Not heroic enough, eh Kim?

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can_belch_alphabet 10 hr ago +6

I always wanted to play 'stop hitting yourself' with his dad. He had the perfect little T-rex arms for it.

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itkovian 10 hr ago +10

Lead by example, right?

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The_Frostweaver 10 hr ago +64

Being prisoners of war would expose how shitty life in North Korea is. They make their soldiers commit suicide for the same reason they don't allow tv and kpop from south korea in north korea. Kim is very afraid if his people realise how much better life is outside his shitty dictatorship they will revolt.

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RapaNow 8 hr ago +9

>Being prisoners of war would expose how shitty life in North Korea is. Most of them already know because ... > they don't allow tv and kpop from south korea in north korea. ... they still have access to those. Watching SK stuff is very wide spread in NK - especially near northern border. If caught the punishments vary from mild to extremely harsh.

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Melo_Apologist 8 hr ago +1

Yeah I think South Korea keeps broadcasting an analogue TV-signal near the border for exactly that reason, even after switching to digital nationwide

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RapaNow 8 hr ago +1

And the northern border, Yalu river, can be crossed relatively easily - especially if you have some yuans. USB sticks are easy to carry, and are wanted items. Near the northern border Chinese mobile service is also accessible.

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Ambitious_Wolf_3116 7 hr ago +1

Don't they hang people for watching tv shows? Or distributing those usbs with tv shows

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RapaNow 7 hr ago +1

No. I've read a few books, by defectors, and books about defectors. The situation changes quite a bit, depending on ... whichever way the wind blows. Either way first time possession of TV shows is never a capital offense. It does decrease your class/caste (songbun). Distributing TV shows is likely to throw you in camps, especially multiple offenses. And there is different types of camps, too. Some of which mean de-facto death sentence. And after a sentence you might not be released, if there is no-one to release you. It's not like you have much chances of demanding your rights while in a camp. And corruption is rife, so with money you can get away from most offenses. Edit: And watching them is rather common, but at most with close family. Some people have said that they have watched series with neighbors, but that can be very risky.

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Ambitious_Wolf_3116 7 hr ago +1

https://nypost.com/2026/02/07/world-news/north-korea-executed-schoolchildren-for-watching-squid-game/ I asked because of news articles like these. I do remember seeing in the news a year or so ago that two people got the death sentence for distributing tv shows. Is the death sentence just for your second offense or something?

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sillysalmonella87 8 hr ago +1

They have a vast network of signal jammers at the DMZ. It's pretty crazy. I've been there.

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CyanConatus 11 hr ago +63

Dannng the family didn't even receive compensation. Even imperial Japan in Ww2 has compensation to family for that

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Tunggall 10 hr ago +27

Yup, the NK regime are worse than the IJA.

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young_arkas 9 hr ago +22

They already have the privilege of living in the perfect workers and peasants paradise. What else could they desire? /s obviously

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Veginite 8 hr ago +1

I mean who wouldn't want to live to fund the lavish lifestyle of a morbidly obese heir to a self-proclaimed god and his minions?

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Teripid 8 hr ago +1

The "compensation" may just be your family not suffering horrible treatment / imprisonment.

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bappestinian 10 hr ago +62

I remember when they discovered p*** for the first time and the russians recorded them “self-blasting” in their dorms.

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praqueviver 9 hr ago +19

Self-blasting periodically is good for prostate health

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TheMemo 8 hr ago +1

Then my ass must be immortal.

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Kombatwombat02 10 hr ago +15

Assuming he gave the speech in Korean, can anyone fluent weigh in here and tell us if ‘self-blasted’ is an accurate translation in context? It might be literally correct, but it seems a deliberately sensationalist translation.

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SoulBonfire 9 hr ago +8

Yes, a better headline might be “NK soldiers forced into sticky situation”.

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ApocalypseYay 10 hr ago +11

Evil sociopath.

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Ancient-Bat1755 11 hr ago +67

The irony of communists expanding imperialistic expansion goals never gets old

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xmuskorx 8 hr ago +1

It's almost like "anti imperialism" was Always a lie

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Ancient-Bat1755 7 hr ago +1

China is somehow bigger than it was under the last dynasty

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xmuskorx 7 hr ago +1

American left has mostly forgotten that Tibet need to be freed. Too busy with obviously imperialist Jewish state that is the size of new Jersey....

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smalldickbigwallet 11 hr ago +31

I think you mean dictators?

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P4cer0 11 hr ago +58

Communists doing imperialism is ironic because they are supposedly anti imperialist. Dictators doing imperialism is classic.

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smalldickbigwallet 11 hr ago +9

I understand. The problem is that NK are barely communists, and they aren't expanding. Rather trading deaths of their citizens for Russian money and military tech.

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orgazmatron9000 11 hr ago +27

Listnook level argument. The self proclaimed communist country aiding an imperialist nation violently expanding isn't communist or doing imperialism.

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therwsb 10 hr ago +17

They also proclaim themselves as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

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Iselkractokidz 8 hr ago +1

They are none of those.

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qwertyqyle 10 hr ago -4

The ideology is Juche (self-reliance), a doctrine emphasizing political independence, economic self-sustenance, and military autonomy. They are technically a democracy in that they hold an election every so many years. But its still essentially a one-party state and if you dont for for Kim, well, I don't even want to know what would happen to you. And they are very much socialist. Free housing, the state gives you a job and a spouse (yay!), etc.

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ThomYorkeSoup 10 hr ago +7

They are socialist in appearance only, the only way they are socialist is if your definition of socialism is 'the government owns everything'. North Korea is ruled under a hereditary dynasty and the power is concentrated at the very top, with only secondary focus on their economy, the primary focus being to maintain power at the top at all costs. They are much closer to a totalitarian autocracy.

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raptorlightning 10 hr ago +7

Socialism is when the people (workers) own the companies (means of production). It is not when the government gives you free shit.

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qwertyqyle 10 hr ago

Oh. What is it called when the government gives you free shit? I honestly thought that when the people (workers) own the companies (means of production) would be considered commies.

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thegoatmenace 10 hr ago

Yes, socialism is as varied in its implementation as capitalism and democracy. Most countries implement at least some degree of socialist ideology into their political system. I think it’s safe to say that North Korea can be classified as socialist because 1.) the Workers Party of Korea that runs the country began as an explicitly Marxist-Leninist political movement, and 2.) the Juche Ideology was originally based on Marxist-Leninist thought. Just because a country is not utopian does not mean it can’t still be classified as socialist.

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Evenstar6132 10 hr ago +1

Most of North Korea's socialist programs (free housing, rations, jobs, etc.) stopped functioning after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Arduous March that followed. Except for the few party elites who get to live in Pyongyang, North Koreans have to get everything from black markets. Even with the loosest definitions of communism/socialism, North Korea is hardly one.

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RapaNow 8 hr ago +7

> The self proclaimed communist country They haven't proclaimed to be communist since 1990s.

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catscanmeow 10 hr ago +1

yeah we can play the same game and say america isnt real capitalism

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TheCatOfWar 7 hr ago +1

Isn't NK literally the most communist country in the world, currently speaking? Like China, Vietnam etc are 'communist' in terms of government one party state etc but in practice are basically just capitalist with a high level of state control. But isn't North Korea still basically the same system as the USSR with no private ownership/enterprise, government controlled production and targets etc? Perhaps not 'true communist' in the academic sense but among the closest any real government has come.

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Aggravating-Dot132 11 hr ago -8

Dictators don't usually have imperialistic ambitions since it almost always ends bad for them. That's why they focus on internal power. There are morons like in this articles, that create a religious cult around them, but that's another story.

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LlamaMan777 10 hr ago +10

You're... Kidding, right? I'm missing the /s ... Right?

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Hot_Campaign_36 10 hr ago +6

It’s unconscionable that he send conscripts to kill Ukrainians. Capture, presumed dead, and anonymous liberation is the best outcome Un’s cannon fodder can hope for. Stop the blasting.

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Sir_Edna_Bucket 8 hr ago +1

"Dad!! Wun Hunglow is self blasting in his bedroom again!!!

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Massive-Anywhere8497 9 hr ago +2

His stomach looks like it has self blasted

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joe6pak 9 hr ago +2

"I have done it, quite often actually, I only ask that you do it once!"

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mikeysz 7 hr ago +1

If he eats a bit more he will self-blast too. Asia’s monsieur Creosote

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dumbnaturedude 10 hr ago +3

One less mouth to feed... Says kimmy...

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Jacques-de-lad 7 hr ago +1

For the last time it’s ‘crankin’ hog!’ Not ‘self blasting’ and the policy is no one than four times a day

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Jabulon 7 hr ago +1

is that legal? to ask soldiers to suicide over territorial disputes?

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geoduude92 8 hr ago +1

The new unaliving has dropped

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spideyghetti 11 hr ago -2

I don't know if they wanted money or something more sexual, but it's a lucky thing I had my pieces - my guns! - so, anyway, I started self-blasting!

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BetSquare7190 11 hr ago -46

Leftists are having a blast.

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