Posted on 10/18/2024 6:18:36 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
North Korea has begun the deployment of around 12,000 soldiers to support Russia's war in Ukraine, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported Friday citing the country's spy agency, saying it marks Pyongyang's first large-scale deployment of ground forces.
The National Intelligence Service said Pyongyang had deployed 1,500 special forces troops between Oct. 8 and last Sunday to Vladivostok in Russia's Far East and that the dispatch of a second unit is expected to take place soon. The move confirmed "the start of North Korea's involvement in the war," the agency said.
The North Korean soldiers are currently stationed with Russian military units in the Far East region and undergoing training. Once they complete it, they are expected to be deployed to the front lines, the NIS said.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un personally inspected the special forces troops twice in August and September before their deployment, the spy agency added.
The soldiers have been issued fake identity cards resembling those of residents in Siberia who have similar facial features to North Koreans to pose as Russian troops, the NIS said.
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Because the msm media says so.
How willing we are to believe them when they write something that fits what we want to hear :)
Who thinks these are the elite troops? I’m guessing Un is getting the bad apples and uneducated out of the military for millions of dollars every month. No one will say a thing when none of them ever come home.
It will work out just about as well as all the Romanian and Hungarian soldiers the Nazis sent to the Russian front during WWII.
So the Korean War we fought against North Korea, Russia and China in the 50’s, is now moving to Ukraine. Send more money.
If this is true these aren’t foreign volunteers like the ones who enlisted in the American military during Vietnam, or joining the Ukraine military, this is the North Korean Army.
Instead of Russia fighting with the North Korean communists and the Vietnamese communists in invading Korea and Vietnam, as in the past, this time it would be North Korean communists joining the Russians and this time in a European invasion.
No they haven’t, and everyone fighting for Ukraine is part of the official Ukrainian military.
Ukraine did help us in Iraq though.
By the way, everyone expected European invasions from Russia and friction from NATO when they do it, but did you expect ever in your wildest dreams the North Korean army to be brought as an ally army with the Russian army in a European invasion?
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