New images appear to show North Korea troops headed to Russia for Ukraine war

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1. Believe nothing that comes from CBS News.

2. No live combat experience vs. hardened warriors defending their homeland. R.I.P poor dumb sheep.

3. More they send off as canon fodder to the Ukraine front, the less of a threat they are to S Korea and the rest of the world

4. "Russia just threw foreign fighters to the front…"" Obviously it works because Ukraine losing. Propaganda is only be good until truths proved otherwise.

5. So what? 23 NATO countries supply weapons, intelligence and military personnel to Ukraine already for two and half years plus over 200 billion dollars. A bunch of North Koreans won’t change anything.

6. NATO cannot confirm reports about North Korean military personnel allegedly fighting alongside Russian forces in the Ukraine conflict, Mark Rutte, the US-led bloc’s secretary general, has said. Rutte was asked by the National News Agency of Ukraine at a press briefing on Wednesday to verify such reports, to which he responded: “I cannot confirm these reports.”
   
   Ukraine seeks allied help against hyped threat of North Koreans: Zelensky urgently needs more troops. Recent changes in the mobilization laws did not really change the intake of new recruits. The few people caught under it and sent to the front where often medical, or socially impaired or elderly people unfit for holding the front line. Many desert as soon as they can.
   
   Zelensky and his media people have for days now claimed that North Korean troops will soon fight on the side of Russia. This, he hopes, will incite western forces to send their own troops to Ukraine if only to counter the North Koreans.

   The first take of this media campaign appeared on October 4: Missile Strike Near Donetsk Eliminates 6 North Korean Officers – Intel – Kyiv Post

   Six officers from North Korea were among the 20 soldiers killed in a Ukrainian missile strike on Russian-occupied territory near Donetsk, intelligence sources say.

   More than 20 soldiers were killed as a result of an Oct. 3 missile strike on Russian-occupied territory near Donetsk, including six officers from North Korea, who came to confer with their Russian counterparts, Kyiv Post’s intelligence sources said. Three more North Korean servicemen were wounded.

   According to reports from Russian social media, prior to the missile strike, the Russians were demonstrating to North Korean representatives the training of personnel for assault actions and defense.

   After his failed 'Victory Plan' campaign the former president picked up the theme:

   Russia plans to involve North Korea in war in Ukraine this fall, Zelensky says – Kyiv Independent

   Russia plans to involve North Korea directly in the full-scale war against Ukraine this fall and winter, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Oct. 14, citing intelligence data.

   The announcement comes a day after Zelensky warned of an "increasing alliance" between Moscow and Pyongyang.

   According to Ukraine's military intelligence, Russia's plans for the fall and winter include "the actual involvement of North Korea in the war," Zelensky said.
   
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   Zelensky warned on Oct. 13 that Russia and North Korea were deepening their alliance, saying that the partnership had escalated to the point where North Korea was sending personnel to Ukraine's front lines along with weapons.
   
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   The warning followed reports from South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-Hyun that North Korea is likely to deploy regular troops to Ukraine to aid Russia at the front.

   Reports have also emerged in recent days that North Korean officers were killed in a Ukrainian missile strike in Russian-occupied territory. The Kyiv Independent has not been able to verify these reports, which have not been confirmed beyond a single intelligence source.

   Since then, Ukrainian media have added this or bit to the story all based on the same 'intelligence sources'.

   Russia forms "Buryat battalion" staffed by North Koreans: 18 soldiers already fled positions – Pravda.ua
   

   The Russians assembled a "special Buryat battalion" recruited from among citizens of Democratic People's Republic of Korea, while 18 North Korean personnel have already escaped from positions located along the border of Russia's Bryansk and Kursk oblasts.
   
   Source: Ukrainska Pravda sources in Ukraine’s special services

   Details: According to Ukrainska Pravda, this occurred 7 kilometres from the state border with Ukraine.
   
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   Previously, reports circulated concerning the assembling of a "special Buryat battalion" in the Russian army.

   The estimated number of personnel in the unit is up to 3,000.

   The battalion is expected to be involved in combat activities around the settlements of Sudzha and Kursk.

   Some 3,000 men would constitute 6 full-fledged infantry battalions, not one.

   To have North Koreans fighting in Russia against the Ukrainian incursion in Kursk would make little sense. That incursion is for one already mostly defeated.

   Besides that, the language and cultural problems would make the integration of such forces into Russian military operations nearly impossible. I am sure that the Russian military would be strongly against it.

   Zelensky's claims were amplified through various proxies and media appearances (edited machine translation):

   The Russian Army wants to achieve maximum results before winter and is not preparing for frosts. This was stated by the speaker of the group "Lugansk" Anastasia Bobovnikova on the air of the telethon.
   
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   Also, Suspilne, citing an intelligence source, reports that Russia wants to send North Korean military personnel to the Kursk region.

   It is reported that now the Russian army is forming a special battalion of up to 3,000 people, staffed by North Korean citizens, on the basis of 11 ODSHBRS.

   The process of providing the battalion with small arms and ammunition is already underway.

   The whole claim of North Korean troops in Russia as a fake news story and I am sure that most experts will follow me in that judgment.

   However, today U.S. media manage to play up the nonsense: Why North Korea is sending soldiers to the Russian front lines – Washington Post

   Sending solders to help Russia’s war effort against Ukraine could earn valuable foreign currency for Kim Jong Un’s regime and bolster their strengthening ties.

   Zelensky this week confirmed reports of North Korean troops supporting Russians inside Ukraine, warning that the alliance between Moscow and Pyongyang is growing stronger and evolving beyond transferring weapons.

   A Ukrainian military intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive security matter, told The Washington Post last week that “several thousand” North Korean infantry soldiers are undergoing training in Russia now and could be deployed to the front line in Ukraine by the end of this year.

   South Korea’s defense minister Kim Yong-hyun last week called the reports of North Korean military personnel helping Russia “highly likely.” The Kremlin has dismissed the assertion as a “hoax.”

   I do not believe that any politician or military in the west will believe that nonsense which is again solely sourced to Ukrainian military intelligence claims. But there is clear campaign by the Ukrainian government to make the issue stick. What is its hope? To induce South Korea to send its forces to fight North Koreans on the Ukrainian border with Russia?

   Another way to get foreign forces to fight on the Ukrainian side is to make them swap their current uniforms for Ukrainian ones. A new Ukrainian law recently made that easier:

   Foreign citizens and stateless persons were allowed to take officer roles within the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the State Special Transport Service of Ukraine, and the National Guard of Ukraine. The Verkhovna Rada has adopted the law on the matter drafted by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

   Before this, foreigners and stateless persons were limited to roles at the enlisted personnel and NCO levels.

   The news of that change came at the same time as the UK mull about sending military instructors to Ukraine. Swapping the instructors uniforms could make such an effort less dangerous.

7. Who cares

8. Bet you money they are just going there to get out of north korrea😂

9. More cannon fodder

10. Waiting for when Ukrainian media show NK POWs.

11. North Korea is now involved in the illegal invasion of Europe. How long will we sit on our hands?

12. Ww3 on its way.

13. at least most of the expats in my survival compound in Thailand will survive

14. World War three. We cant deny that it is currently going on. I live in Sweden and the war is soon here aswell. All prices for food have already gone insane here. And there are so many different people in this country that perhaps shouldnt be here

15. This is not good news…… It means that North Korea and Russia are planning something bigger….. And if I'm right…. Then this war is something bigger than just Ukraine!

16. World War 3

17. No. They dont. They show unidentified presumably non-Russian soldiers training presumably in Russia, the same way Western countries host other Western countries' troops for cross training. P r o p a g a n d a is bad m'kay?

18. You can fool your audience 😂
    But can't fool the world as we sees Russians are gaining grounds

19. They should send a himars hello to north Koreans

20. NATO will quietly counter the north korean move.

21. So if this is true then NATO or other nations can do the same then. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander!

22. All the North Koreas will defect and go to the west

23. Cook em

24. Hurrraaaaaaaa russia

25. Smh.‼️
    🫡WW3

26. ‘Appear to show,’ ie a rumour that will rapidly become a convenient ‘political truth.’ Looking forward to photoshopped pictures of North Korean soldiers looking to march en masse to Western European borders and the “enslavement of the world!!!!” … but oh no – Cue more sanctions and escalations, same old tactics each time.

27. I don't understand the concern. You guys have been laughing at the NK army for years as a impoverished, malnourished ragtag bunch, and now suddenly they are hyped up to be a potential game changer? 😂

28. Not Another Take Over

29. North Korean soldiers and Russian soldiers being used as war pawns.

30. So Ukraine can you use soldiers from other countries but Russia can’t?

31. Typical. Two bad guys teaming up together. We all saw this coming eventually. 🥱

32. Um, at the rate of attrition of Russian personnel . . . they'll make a difference for about a week.

33. Nothing says winning a war like begging for the DPRK to send their soldiers.

    Russia better hope the Baltic states don’t follow the example. I’ll take the Polish army over the DPRK’s any day of the week and twice on Sunday

34. It'll be interesting to watch how they will try to karate their way out from the drone.

35. Zelinski Intel hehehehehehe

36. Russia is so weak and desperate. SAD! 😂😂😂

37. كوريا الشمالية لها الحق في الدفاع عن نفسها

38. WW3. Biden Harris ww3 speedrun almodt complete

39. My assumption is that Kim is sending 50 thousand for "aid".

    If only 1 thousand make it back in the year, then Kim will use them as "Instructors" to know how NATO fights.

    Kim doesn't care about some piece of meat. He's only sending them so they can get "Experience" since they haven't fought in a war since, officially, the Korean war, but unofficially, Vietnam.

40. So basically Russia is admitting they lost so they need help. This is a shame. Russia needs to admit defeat, leave all of Ukraine, and stop sending their people and now other countries’ people to be destroyed. When will the Russian people wise up and say enough?

41. They are being trained for real world/battle experience, obviously.