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[โ€“] spectre@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My understanding was that it had to do not so much with defection as much as POWs being anti-war and unwilling to fight when they were returned due to DPRK/PRC propaganda. Of course, the propaganda was just a tour of Pyongyang and other firsthand witness of the destruction their side caused.

[โ€“] emizeko@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

iirc many of the returning veterans were also confessing or trying to blow the whistle on American use of biological warfare