Posted on 12/31/2024 4:54:20 AM PST by airdalechief
Russia is deploying “human waves” of North Korean soldiers, the U.S. said Friday, and at least one soldier captured by Ukraine died of his injuries.
According to White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby, some North Korean soldiers have taken their own lives rather than surrendering to Ukrainian forces.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service had confirmed on Friday that the North Korean soldier captured the previous day had died.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a statement on Telegram Friday that at least 3,000 North Korean soldiers have died or been wounded in Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces mounted a lightning incursion in August.
The North Korean troops are being treated as “expendable” and ordered by their leadership on “hopeless assaults against Ukrainian defenses,” Kirby said.
“These North Korean soldiers appear to be highly indoctrinated, pushing attacks even when it is clear that those attacks are futile,” he said.
The exact number of North Korean soldiers who killed themselves to avoid capture is unclear. Zelenskyy said Friday that while “several” North Korean soldiers were captured, they were “seriously wounded and could not be resuscitated,” suggesting that some of them may have also been killed by comrades.
These troops were being sent to fight with “minimal protection,” he said, and were suffering a “great deal” of losses.
I have pretty much ZERO sympathy for Hamas
Now that being said...
I cannot imagine the brainwashing applied to the poor souls that were born into that horrible regime in North Korea - no preaching of the Gospel, no Bibles.....
My father was a veteran of the Korean War - what he had to do, I believe, troubled him his whole life (and took quite a toll on him, too)
sigh
Just like the fanatical Japanese in WWII.
Has there been any actual photo or video evidence of Norks fighting in Ukraine that could be independently verified?
White House paid liar says blah blah blah...
Nope! The Russians are also not using open field wave tactics, verified by many videos.
> I cannot imagine the brainwashing applied to the poor souls that were born into that horrible regime in North Korea. <
I once read an article by a Western journalist who was given permission to tour the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. He was accompanied by a NK “guide” (a watcher, actually).
One thing the Westerner noticed is how the North Korean citizens feared being near him. Turns out they are told that most Westerners are cannibals, and cannot resist attacking nearby prey.
If you watch some of the North Koreans in action videos on YouTube and Telegram, their basic tactic is a bonzai charge into enemy fire, as soon as they show themselves, they get swarmed by drones, artillery and small arms fire and get mowed down before they make any progress.
wow, that’s truly sad
you got that right - that guy is as obvious as many I worked with at Cost-H2Ohome.....(cryptic code)
Russia is not going to expend any medical care for expendable DPRK soldiers when they can barely take care of their own.
Another “new tactic” used by the Norks is sending one guy from a large group of 20-30 troops running across an open field as bait for UKR drones. As the sacrificed troop is running, the others try to shoot down the drones.
Sadly, UKR artillery finds the group first and clusters the bunched up lot, while the drones finish of the sacrificed runner.
North Korean Human Sacrifice Tactic: Using Human Bait For Drones
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU/videos
Sure! And their heads are like 1 pixel in those pics.
I’ve been posting since the beginning of this mess that the first casualty in war is the truth, and that all the sides are lying to us. And there are a lot more than two sides. Nothing has happened to change my early assessment, I stick to it.
Not unlike Ruskies in post war Stalin’s Russia where school children watched American westerns in class and were told that’s what America was like.
I like the way you think.. :)
To Kim getting captured is the same as surrendering. If they surrender, their families die. Which is also the same for Putin. Kim and Putin - cut from the same cloth.
Like blazing saddles that movie could not be made these days with scenes like that 😎
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