For those a bit confused, this is the first time the US military has agreed with Ukrainian and occupied Korean claims that the DPRK has sent troops intended for Ukraine itself and marks an escalation in propaganda rhetoric.
I’ve archived the source to avoid giving the AP clicks for uncritically carried western propaganda.
US issued meaningless threat that they would be considered combatants and targeted by weapons the west gave them if they fought there alongside Russian troops (duh, very confusing and kinda telling statement).
“Today, I can confirm that North Korean troops have been sent to Russia, and that North Korean military units have been deployed to the Kursk region,” NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte told reporters. Rutte said the move represents “a significant escalation” in North Korea’s involvement in the conflict and marks “a dangerous expansion of Russia’s war.”
Adding thousands of North Korean soldiers to Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II will pile more pressure on Ukraine’s weary and overstretched army. It will also stoke geopolitical tensions in the Korean Peninsula and the wider Indo-Pacific region, including Japan and Australia, Western officials say.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is keen to reshape global power dynamics. He sought to build a counterbalance to Western influence with a summit of BRICS countries, including the leaders of China and India, in Russia last week. He has sought direct help for the war from Iran, which has supplied drones, and North Korea, which has shipped large amounts of ammunition, according to Western governments.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov shrugged off Rutte’s comments and noted that Pyongyang and Moscow signed a joint security pact last June. He stopped short of confirming North Korean soldiers were in Russia.
The Ukraine regime is now claiming that these troops could be on the battlefield in days. A strange reversal from claims they were already on the battlefield and they’d captured some which happened a week ago. Time must be moving backwards there.
IMO this represents a pretext being invented to give Ukraine an excuse to use long-range weapons for deep strikes into Russia by saying it’s fair game for the US to help as the DPRK is helping Russia (as if those two things are equal). In other words a desperate rush to nuclear war.
Sounds to me that Pentagon is doing trial balloons to see if they can justify escalation. The reality is that the west has been sending troops to fight in Ukraine for the past two years, so the precedent has already been set. Both Russia and DPRK are sovereign countries that just signed a mutual defence agreement. It’s entirely within their right to help each other militarily if they want to.
And I’ve been hearing that they are claming that folks from certain regions of Russia which have different ethnic traces, that can be mistaken by Asian, are being reported as north Korean
I’ve seen that mentioned as well. So far there’s no actual proof that DPRK sent any soldiers into Russia, and the story the west has been floating continues to change suggesting that they’re just making it up as they go. That said, there could be legitimate reasons why DPRK might want to send troops for training into Russia. They also might want to get their troops real combat experience that could be shared with the rest of the military. For example, Russian military ended up taking people from Wagner and assigning them to different units to share their experience, and apparently that led to a significant improvement in overall performance. It’s entirely possible Koreans might want to do the same.
Yes I see this argument but the analysis that suggests that they didn’t sent, or at the very least nearly as much sounds more compelling to me, being that it would be a hard pill to swallow back home for the families of the casualties there, being that there is no direct reason for the involvement of Korea in this war, the different language would also pose a far from irrelevant issue. Furthermore it downplays Russian capacity to solve their own issues, since Russia view this war as an internal affair, and an external help of 10 thousand men would likely be seen as a sort of.cry for help or some weakness of Russia. Therefore I have a hard time believing it, not impossible, but looks unlikely to me.
That may be true. The problem is that neither Russia nor the DPRK seems to have considered the unintended consequences:
Adding thousands of North Korean soldiers to Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II will pile more pressure on Ukraine’s weary and overstretched army.
That’s not very fair, is it?
Ukraine is cooked. Every single one of those soldiers can pull an entire train by themselves, because Bad Korea hasn’t invented coal or fire yet.
Yeah sure. Ten thousand soldiers. Just hiding em in a basement somewhere so the West doesn’t see. Sure.
They are Juche-necromantic skeleton warriors, traveling by ghost train, which as we all know cannot be detected by radar, and are capable of traveling by historical railways that no longer exist
You may be right but this could also be a sign Ukraines about to lose and this way they can say omg evil DPRK is too strong Ukraine was beating Russia but now they just cant do it.
I worry that they’re doing it to justify some kind of action against DPRK directly.
Theyre always looking for an excuse to attack DPRK but if theres one country i trust to defend itself its the DPRK. They would straight decimate the US Vassals in the region if anything happened. Its why you dont see any fucking around with DPRK like how theyll assassinate Iranians and Bomb Iran as if its no big deal. They know the DPRK would let them have it in a way they cant handle. There is 1 country that is 100% still gonna be around in 100 years unless humans go extinct and thats the DPRK imo.
Idk if the west would want to paint north Korea as an actual adequate power. Most of the propaganda is (lies) about how terrible and laughable of a country they are.
That’s the west’s favorite way to do it. “This country is terrible and we can squash them” and at the same time they say “this country is a menace and will take over the world if we don’t stop them.”
Idk, I know that’s usually the case, even with Russia now, but for the DPRK I feel it’s too special of a case where they have been portrayed as weak too strongly for too long. I can’t think of a single time they’ve been portrayed as strong.
I think this is a long play to try and bring China in, similar to how they blamed China for the DPRK starting to send weapons a while ago.
Like I strongly doubt the DPRK did send soldiers, but wouldn’t it be a good idea if they did? It would help an ally and give much irl experience to their soldiers, especially since fake Korea keeps increasing provocations
