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This is one for the Zeepers / pro-Ukrainians:

Are these credible reports? They say 11,000 are fighting.

Even if not a Zeeper but have a military background: Are these extraordinary details accurate?

Thanks in advance!

1 posted on 01/27/2025 11:59:08 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Has anyone got a North Korean corpse?

We were told three weeks ago, Ukraine captured North Korean prisoners. So where are they?

Any captured documents? weapons? Left-behind Kim Chi pots?

This once again can be filed in the category of “Ukraine Zeeper Bullsh**”


2 posted on 01/27/2025 12:03:07 PM PST by PGR88
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Drones in the air beats 11,000 dead men walking.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/which-is-better-in-the-russia-z6jvbqkJR7.jRPa2jFBDWQ


3 posted on 01/27/2025 12:04:57 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Man made Climate Change is Real. Cal. Officials responsible for the fires just proved it.)
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Keep in mind to the Norks they think their leader is a god.


5 posted on 01/27/2025 12:05:56 PM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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Are they sure they just don’t know how to count to “Three”?


7 posted on 01/27/2025 12:06:44 PM PST by Zathras
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I read the headline as “ILLEGAL ALIENS ‘blow themselves up with grenades rather than risk DEPORTATION’” and I thought to myself “How great is this!?”

Then I thought “How did they get the grenades?”

Then I re-read the headline.


8 posted on 01/27/2025 12:08:53 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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Granted I’ve not done a ton of research into this area, but the video I’ve seen of North Koreans in actions tends to prove much of what is listed in this article.

You see Platoons or larger numbers of NOK troops advancing across an open field only to get devasted by artillery.

I’ve also seen NOK troops getting taken out by drones and in some cases trying to fight them off using their rifles.

If you have no idea what you are getting into the NOK troops are going to perform as they’ve been trained.

Bonsai or Kamikaze style attacks is a really bad idea on a modern battlefield like Ukraine


9 posted on 01/27/2025 12:09:45 PM PST by srmanuel
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In the fog of war, truth is the first casualty. This particular war is especially the case.

I'm not on any side one way of the other on this war (except I think it's been a clear waste of OUR money from very early on), but there has been so much misinformation and plain old BS from both sides that you can't believe any of it. I'll wait until the whole fiasco is done and let it get sorted out afterwards. As Vice President Vance recently said, "I really don't care, Margaret."

10 posted on 01/27/2025 12:11:18 PM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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"I think they'll be back soon," he said, speaking at a secret base in northeastern Ukraine.


13 posted on 01/27/2025 12:15:41 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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Awhile back I read an article about a Western journalist who got permission to tour Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. He, of course, had a handler who followed him every step of the way.

The journalist said the North Koreans he met were terrified of him. He found that very puzzling. He later found out that the North Koreans are told Westerners are all bloodthirsty cannibals.

Maybe that helps to explain the article’s title.


16 posted on 01/27/2025 12:21:36 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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Nothing buy joy in the Ukraine army these days.

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17 posted on 01/27/2025 12:22:01 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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Nothing buy joy in the Ukraine army these days.

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18 posted on 01/27/2025 12:22:01 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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Invest in AI.


19 posted on 01/27/2025 12:22:48 PM PST by McGruff (Trump: Joe Biden will go down in history as the worst president ever.)
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The South Koreans in Vietnam were greatly feared. They found by chopping off heads made the vietnamese fearful because of the superstition the head must be attached to enter the next life.
So the Koreans chopped heads and put them on pikes.
My neighbor had photos( marine mechanized) and showed no concertina around the Korean huts at all, sometimes not even a guard.

Those stories had me switching my martial arts from Japanese to Korean but the Japanese are just as feared warriors.
Their credo is to always finish what you start and if you fail you die instead of suffering the lifetime of humility of having failed.


21 posted on 01/27/2025 12:42:02 PM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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Rookie troops going up against vets almost always suffer heavy casualties.

The difference between this and any other on the job training is mistakes here get you dead instead of chewed out or fired


22 posted on 01/27/2025 12:48:53 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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Not many of today’s American soldiers would sacrifice like that. The Bowie Bergdahl example would be more prevalent.


23 posted on 01/27/2025 12:52:51 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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I keep seeing reports/claims of NK troops here and there in the SMO. But no one seems to have hard evidence. Which has led in turn to an exaggerated skepticism on the part of commenters on those reports. My take is it is reasonable that NK would seize a chance to get some solid combat experience if Russia offered it. So my guess is that the truth is somewhere in the middle of "thousands of Norks lying dead on the battlefield" as some lurid reports claimed without evidence, and "No NK troops at all" on the other.

To the latters point, there is an ethnic Korean population in eastern Russia such as around Vladivostok, so just finding a corpse that looks Korean means little. I mention this because at least one report claimed the sneaky Norks were wearing Russian uniforms. And now we see an oddball claim of NK troops conveniently blow themselves to smithereens to avoid capture - and confirmatory evidence. No doubt using the same self-demolition kits Bigfoot uses so that people can never find sasquatch remains...

27 posted on 01/27/2025 2:13:25 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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Like the Japanese in WWII.


28 posted on 01/27/2025 2:20:38 PM PST by Brilliant
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29 posted on 01/27/2025 2:23:24 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Yes, multiple sources has reported much the same thing in the past several months - allegedly 12,000 were sent, with 4,000 now dead. More may be on the way, along with various artillery and radar systems.

Most of te NK troops are not on the front lines, but in the rear.

A group of NK troops attack Russian positions several times - reasons unknown - both sides suffered casualties. The language barrier may be at the root of these attacks.


30 posted on 01/27/2025 3:08:51 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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“North Koreans ‘blow themselves up with grenades rather than risk capture’, say Ukraine soldiers”

Not sure I would swallow a grenade after pulling the pin, but if Zelensky says so, it must be true. LOL!


32 posted on 01/27/2025 4:34:12 PM PST by BobL
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