Posted on 12/17/2024 5:21:43 PM PST by Mariner
Far from their homes in one of the world’s most isolated and secretive states, about 11,000 North Korean soldiers find themselves at the center of Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II.
Little is known about the North Korean troops deployed to support Russia in its devastating yearslong war in Ukraine – or what exactly they will be ordered to do – and their presence hasn’t even been officially acknowledged by Moscow or Pyongyang.
US, Ukrainian and South Korean intelligence says the North Koreans have already engaged in combat operations, joining a Russian force of tens of thousands to carry out an assault on Ukrainian positions in Russia’s western Kursk region. Speculation has been rife about how these troops will fare.
According to Ukraine, at least 30 North Korean soldiers were killed or wounded in fighting over the weekend near villages in Kursk close to the Ukrainian border. One Ukrainian unit reported that North Koreans – wearing different uniforms from the Russians – had launched infantry attacks using the “same tactics as 70 years ago,” in an apparent reference to the Korean War, where waves of infantry were used.
Pyongyang’s soldiers lack real-world battle experience and will face unfamiliar terrain in a brutal, modern war theater – one that has wrought chaos and horror for both sides as the dead pile up across the front lines.
But some analysts have warned against underestimating the North Koreans.
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And he fought them from the Hadong Ambush all the way to the outskirts of Pyongyang.
He turned 18 in Korea, less than a week after surviving the Hadong Ambush.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadong_Ambush
They also will not be allowed the little freedom they had when they were in North Korea, because they had a taste of the outside. So, they are better off being heroic by ensuring they die on the battlefield.
They have been making a dent in the Kursk salient.
My understanding from Military Summary Channel is these are N.K. Special Forces.
That was 70 years and two generations of repression and starvation ago.
Military culture endures.
It survives a lot.
About a month ago weren’t we hearing that the North Korean soldiers got hooked on porn in Russia?
Yes and there are 10,000 of them.
Does that have anything to do with their martial skill?
It means they have each have big muscles in their dominant arms.
South Korea is soon to be looking down the barrel of a very loaded gun.
They like bayonet fights, and if they win they kill everyone.
They probably get to eat more and have more freedom than when they are home. I wonder if some of them can eventually defect.
What percentage of the men he was fighting were Chinese vs. Korean.
“or what exactly they will be ordered to do”
Well, that’s easy, they’ll be ordered to die.
I expect Russian military rations are a step up from what they are used to eating in Korea.
They were all Norklandians.
He was medevacced before the Chinese crossed the Yalu.
Two Purple Hearts at 18yrs old.
Source: CNN 😂
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