That’s the dream and goal!
However, we do see articles about the clever Russian who got sent to the front and then managed to get back home to Russia.
E.g. https://www.economist.com/1843/2024/10/11/escape-from-the-meat-grinder-the-making-of-a-russian-deserter and https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/20/magazine/ukraine-russia-war-deserter.html
North Korea doesn’t really care about their soldiers. They’re willing to risk all of them on the chance that even a small handful come back alive (i.e. not flee) with hardened battlefield experience to use against South Korean and the United States in the future.
Yes! It’s about time already.