Posted on 08/06/2022 4:08:43 PM PDT by Cronos
The 100,000 North Korean “volunteers” reportedly being offered up to Russia to join the war on Ukraine would be people from the lowest “social class,” most likely forced to go by the government, North Korean defector Grace Jo told National Review.
Russian talk show host Igor Korotchenko mentioned the new development in North Korean–Russian relations on Russian state TV this week, saying, “There are reports that 100,000 North Korean volunteers are prepared to come and take part in the conflict.”
In North Korea, “volunteer” doesn’t have the same definition as in the U.S., Jo said.
When the government issues an order to “send a number of people to support Russia,” they choose people from the lowest “social class order” to go first, she explained.
North Korea uses a sociopolitical classification called the “songbun” to determine one’s social rank. One’s “songbun” is largely determined by their ancestor’s loyalty to the regime, and one has no control over this rank. There are three main classes divided into 51 categories, and one’s status impacts their education, military service, housing, and even food supply.
Those in the lowest rank make up 27 percent of the population. They are “descendants of landlords, capitalists, religious people, political prisoners, those who had assisted South Korean forces during the Korean War, or were otherwise judged anti-Party or associated with external powers,” according to Liberty In North Korea.
Jo is one of 370 refugees from North Korea who has settled in the U.S., having escaped from the dictatorship after almost starving to death as a child. Her two brothers and father died from starvation while living in North Korea, and her older sister went missing while going to China to look for food.
Now, at 30 years old, Jo is studying interior design in the U.S. and speaking to students about the dangers of socialism with the Dissident Project.
When asked why North Korea would send “volunteers” to Russia, Jo said there is “no reason” for North Korea to refuse, since Russia is its “parent” and the two have been building closer bilateral relations.
North Korea is one of the only countries in the world that recognized the independence of the Russian-occupied Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) and the Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) in Ukraine.
North Korean “builders” are also reportedly expected to be sent to rebuild Donbas, Alexander Matsegora, the Russian ambassador to North Korea, said in an interview in July.
They’ll never get past the first convenience store.
“We have found their country’s food depot”
“There is another across the street!”
Hopefully, the Ukrainians get them to defect.
National Review is an anti-Trumper, Dick Cheney fake news site.
I believe NOTHING they publish.
I anticipate a lot of defections.
I predict these poor guys will surrender en masse.
Tens, hundreds at a time.
their officers life expectancy would be in the zeptosecond range before they defected to Ukraine
The Norks are already half starved, aren’t they? Hard to believe any of this “reporting”.
No offense meant, but you should wait a bit before you relay any more "facts" from Mockingbird on Ukraine.
“””Now, at 30 years old, Jo is studying interior design “””
My place looks very North Korean inside, and I did it myself, friends and visitors are often stunned into silence when they first see it.
Volunteers , good one ,LOL
First Syrian Jihadists now North Korean slave soldiers brought in to invade Europe.
And idiots here think Putin’s doing God’s work.
Spit.
Not that I doubt it but why would a defector know ?
Anyone here pushing Putin’s propaganda is an idiot or a scumbag.
Same for Red China propaganda.
“They’ll never get past the first convenience store.”
Very witty, Sir Knight.
They were voluntold.
Sounds like a “target rich” environment.
So the dictators of Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and a few other third world holes want to start world war 3 with with the whole free world now. If they’re feelin’ froggy, let ‘em try to hop on with their useless slave troops, junk equipment and retarded, traitorous propagandists in our midst. See what happens.
Maybe Zelenskyy can teach them to dance 💃 and 🎵 sing?
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