Right - even if it is not as dramatic as imprisonment in the camps in Hamgyeongbukdo, it could mean demotion and years of sustained investigation and perhaps social ostracism.

But I think one of the other motives here is that these guys are probably getting some wild hazard pay for going to the conflict zone, and their relative wealth within North Korea as elite soldier careerists is probably quite decent as is.

At some point, you have to even wonder why they wear the mask of legitimate concern at all. Enough has been leaked that everybody understands that their real objective is the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and repopulating it with Jewish settlers.

Nothing these people say can even be particularly interesting because it’s just a facade erected to disguise their Jewish supremacist ideology & Zionism.