TOH edition: Thursday, 24 September 2026 · War & Peace
Two Soldiers Captured in Someone Else's War Are Finally Free to Choose a Life: Ukraine Sent Them to South Korea
Reported by The Washington Post
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the UN General Assembly on 23 September that Ukraine has sent two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea, following months of consultations between Kyiv and Seoul. The soldiers were captured in Russia's Kursk region in 2025.
Even inside a grinding war, governments completed a careful transfer that lets two captured men avoid return to North Korea.
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