This will be an interesting dynamic.
NK troops haven’t seen actual warfare in 70 years, but they do a lot of drills and simulations.
Either they’re going to panic and run at the first sound of gunfire, or they’re going to completely annihilate Ukrainian/NATO forces.
The Norks will collapse like a hipuse of cards in the face of modern weaponry.
I think its just Kim Jung Un up to his old provocative tricks, tweaking the West, trying to shock S. Korea, Japan and the USA.
Trump was able to talk to him man-to-man, gave him recognition, negotiated with him. Kim liked and needed the respect.
Since Jan 6, 2021, the deep-state bureaucrats and MIC drones are back in charge, so the pre 2017 status-quo is back on both sides.
I would bet on the 2nd option.
Yep, about 70 years since the Russians and the North Koreans fought side by side against their common enemy.
“During the time that the “Honchos” (the nickname given by the Sabre pilots to excellent MiG pilots) were in Korea, between April 1951 and January 1952, they shot down or damaged beyond repair 142 UN aircraft against 68 losses, an overall 2:1 kill ratio. Their most successful month was October 1951, when the Soviet MiG-15s bagged 7 F-86s, 6 F-84Es, 2 RF-80As and one F-80C, one Meteor and 10 B-29As -24 victories- and suffered only 8 MiGs lost. During that period over 30 Soviet MiG-15 pilots became aces, among them the already mentioned Nikolai Sutyagin (21 kills); and also Yevgeni Pepelyayev (19), Lev Shchukin (17), Sergei Kramarenko (13), Mikhail Ponomaryev (11), Dmitri Samoylov (10), etc.
How could they do this, when all the American aces in that same period (Ralph Gibson, Dick Becker, etc) could only score 5-6 MiG kills? (except for the intrepid Major George A. Davis, who was credited with 14 kills) As a group, were the Russians 2-3 times better fighter pilots than their American opponents, as the claimed scores of 15 vs. 5 might imply?”
70 years ago they knew how to run one play, which involved bayonets.
These guys are fanatically ideologyly driven by 70 years of teaching children to kill GIs with bayonets. Cradle to the Grave hate last 80 years or until the generational cycle of 80 years breaks the cycle.
I am sure the Nork’s are chopping at the chance to eat all they want and actually act out their childhood instruction.
The real danger is that N. Korea has thousands of vehicles and rifles. Led by competent Russian Advisors from Special Ops (sound familiar to Vietnam), they will not be the screaming waves of men over running their enemies.
If only a few hundred it will pose no problem. However, if they send 10,000 or more, it is enough to use them to overrun the Ukrainian’s and route them at the point of contact.
Will we see North Korean Pilots and planes droppping FABs to gain real world experience.
At least they are not using accounting tricks to credit their deployment as Contractors.
Have you seen them goose-step? HAVE YOU!!!? That's the kind of tactics and training that Martin Van Creveld could only dream about.