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Movies Poorly Trained/Underfed-11,000 North Koreans in Kursk: NO Outside Troops Help Ukr

Inexperienced, Poorly Trained And Underfed: The North Korean Troops Heading to Ukraine

Up to 11,000 North Koreans in Kursk, Say Pentagon and Zelenskyy


Kim Jong-un has called his army the strongest in the world but they are vulnerable to malnutrition, and none have seen combat or know the terrain in Russias war


The Guardian 5 NOV 2024






North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects a military training base in March 2024. Thousands of troops from North Korea are massing near the Ukrainian border, but their military worth has been questioned by some experts





Europe not doing enough about foreign power taking part, says Ukrainian president; Sloviansk woman gets 15 years jail for treasonous aid to Russians.



Depending on whom you ask, they are the boost that Russian forces need to make a significant breakthrough in Ukraine, or they are simple cannon fodder, destined for repatriation in body bags.

After weeks of speculation, Nato and the Pentagon have confirmed that around 11,000 North Korean troops are in Russia, with most massing near Ukraines border in Kursk, where the Kremlins forces have struggled to repel a Ukrainian incursion.

US officials believe the North Koreans could enter the conflict within days, as the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, pleads with his countrys allies to stop watching while his troops prepare to confront a new and untested enemy.


It is too early to say how the Russian-North Korean blood alliance will change the dynamics of the conflict. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said Russia had been training them to use artillery, drones and basic infantry operations, including trench clearing, indicating that they fully intend to use these forces in frontline operations.

But not one of the young men drafted from Kim Jong-uns regular army of around 1 million the strongest in the world, according to Kim have seen combat. And they will be fighting on unfamiliar territory, with new weapons and in uniforms bearing the flag of a country Russia they know little about.

While their arrival relieves pressure on Russia to draft more of its own citizens, with the US estimating that more than 500,000 Russians have been killed or wounded since the war started in February 2022 experts believe the military dividends for the Kremlin will be limited.

North Korean pilots flew during the Vietnam war, and the country provided military advisers and air force personnel to Egypt during the Yom Kippur War in 1973, as well as military aid to Syria.

But North Korea has not fought in a major war since the early 1950s, when a three-year conflict between North and South ended in an uncomfortable truce but not a peace treaty.


Ukraine Attacks North Korean Soldiers in Kursk As Russia 'Arms' Kim's Troops With Snipers And RPGs - Why Are North Korean Soldiers Entering Russias War Against Ukraine?


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