Well, they are soldiers who are part of and help defend one of the world's frightening communist, Orwellian-style totalitarian dictatorships (NK is probably the closest real-life analogy to Orwell's society described in 1984) but to be fair, If I really can, elf, this isn't their war, their problems. This is a war their "Great Leader" signed up to be apart of in closed negotiating rooms because Kim-Jong Un wanted missiles and Putin needs fresh soldiers for the never-ending meat-grinding, quagmire of a war he started.