SEOUL—They were meant to depict North Korea’s fighting elite. Dispatched to Korea’s demilitarized zone about a few many years in the past, Roh Chol Min was a new recruit on the entrance lines. He sized up his fellow 46 soldiers in the device and noticed adult men like himself: tall, young and connected.
Mr. Roh had won the coveted posture, in the late summertime of 2017, owing to his sharpshooting abilities and top at 5-ft-eight-inches he is unusually tall for North Korea. But when he attended his initial goal observe, he was shocked. Nobody else…