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North Korean Soldiers Assist Assad in the War Against the Syrian People
Syria Mirror ^
| 7/20/2015
Posted on 10/16/2015 8:31:27 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
North Korean Soldiers Assist Assad in the War Against the Syrian People.
7/20/2015 At 09:21 AM
Activists and eyewitnesses confirmed that 5 buses full of fully armed Korean soldiers were seen in the capital Damascus, heading towards Jobar and Eastern Ghouta.
It's not the first time Assad has used korean, not to mention the Shiite and Asian militias, fo fight in his side, Many media sources confirmed that korean soldiers from what is called Tshulima units has been assigned as Assad's personal details two years ago, after the large advance opposition forces achieved inside the capital Damascus.
Tshulima special unit has soldiers with very high training and was called that name after a mythical winged-horse named Tshulima.
The unit was placed in the most sensitive positions inside the presidential palace, and was responsible for protecting the secret places Assad has.
Korean military presence in Syria is not a new thing, in 1973, Hafez al-Assad a lot of ideas from former North Korean ruler Kim Il Sung, grandfather of current ruler Kim Jong-un, including the idea of the Vanguards of Baath, and the youth of Baath (a sort of military camps with a sole purpose, that is the deification of the leader.)
Since that time, Korean experts have been running all of Assad's sensitive military projects, and currently there are two air bases that are fully run by Korean pilots and technicians.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: assad; assadthemurderer; baath; baathists; dprk; nkorea; norks; northkorea; pyongyang; republicofkorea; syria; syrianwar; tshulima
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'Tshulima' must be an arabic pronunciation of a Korean word 'Cholima'(천리마.) Cholima is a word used frequently in N. Korean propaganda. For example, 'Cholima Movement' was a much trumpeted party-led drive to boost industial production in late 50's, similar to China's 'Great Leap Forward.' Apparently, this particular unit is located only in Syria. There does not seem to be Cholima unit back in N. Korea from which this particulasr contingent is from.
To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; endthematrix; ...
The Cholima statue in Pyongyang:
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:35:30 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I suspect they are leased out for cash, goods or services. I doubt they are very good. They were just human wave cannonfodder with some modest infiltration skills during the Korean War, and the rigidity of North Korea doesn’t suggest any doctrinal changes.
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:35:47 AM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(ObamaCons: the deformed and venomous issue resulting from intimacies between Obama and NeoCons.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq captured a Chinese ISIS terrorist in Baiji - Iraq
To: TigerLikesRooster
Sounds like a win-win for both of them. Assad needs the soldiers and the Norks need the cash income.
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:36:31 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
To: TigerLikesRooster
They took a bus from North Korea to Syria? I’d like to see a movie about that.
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:37:47 AM PDT
by
rey
To: TigerLikesRooster
Korean-Syrian version of the Varangian Guard. Assad cannot trust any Syrians to guard him.
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:37:48 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: TigerLikesRooster
Putins got his own “Coalition of the Willing.”
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:39:35 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Vigilanteman
I am beginning to wonder if N. Korea will send more of them, for more cash probably paid by Russians, Chinese, or Iranians. They undergo field training in China or Russia, and then are sent to Syria by sea or air. China would be happy to make this kind of arrangement.
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:41:56 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: rey
No from Damascus to a front-line area in Syria.
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:44:32 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I’m honestly surprised China hasn’t sent a significant expeditionary force, if only to make trained troops into veterans. They have a surplus of males, and don’t have to consider anyone’s sensibilities. It would seem to be a windfall for them, like some of the participants in the Spanish Civil War.
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:46:04 AM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(ObamaCons: the deformed and venomous issue resulting from intimacies between Obama and NeoCons.)
To: Psalm 144
“I suspect they are leased out for cash, goods or services”
Yup
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:47:42 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Hey Tiger least Assad would feed these guys LOL!
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:48:23 AM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
To: Psalm 144
China may want to keep their focus on Asia. They face enemies from East, South, and West. It would be a useful exercise in long-range expedition, but committing too much resources may be counterproductive in the short term. However, since China add 8,000 Chinese troops for UN peacekeeping duty, things can change as time goes on.
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:54:25 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: Psalm 144
There are reports they’ve already sent in special forces to kill all the Urgyurs, a Muslim ethnic group that has periodically bombed buses in China. Kill the ones who want to commit jihad, before they come back to China.
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:56:19 AM PDT
by
tbw2
To: SevenofNine
Plenty to eat, since they are stationed at Assad’s Presidential Palace,
and nice weather, too.
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:56:48 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Kim: I MAKE YOU AWW GWOW IN DA DAWWWWWWKKKKKKK!!!!
We need more HD cameras over there to capture the destruction of the ISIS hordes.
This could be must see t.v.
:-)
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posted on
10/16/2015 9:00:08 AM PDT
by
JEDI4S
(I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
10/16/2015 9:03:04 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
Haha, these guys obviously failed the basic camo and concealment courses.
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posted on
10/16/2015 9:23:21 AM PDT
by
Bulwyf
To: TigerLikesRooster
Dang it!
And here I wrote that the North Koreans were dogging it by not helping out.
Russians, Cubans, Iraqis, Iranians, North Koreans....
All they need is American university professors and they’ll have every jackass over there.
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posted on
10/16/2015 9:23:30 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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