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North Korean troops fighting in Ukraine is ‘scary’: Military expert | Cuomo

  • October 19, 2024



North Korean troops fighting in Ukraine is ‘scary’: Military expert | Cuomo

North Korea helping Russia fight the war in Ukraine is scary for several reasons, says Dan Rice, a former special adviser to the commander of Ukraine’s military. He tells “CUOMO” this could turn the Russia-Ukraine war into a world war.
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  6. Looks like Trump is the only one who talks about stopping war, everybody else talks about sending troops and munitions. We don't wanna world war, that's for sure.

  8. Why has NATO spent the Biden years poking the bear? If Russia put missiles in Cuba, we'd be pissed. So why are we doing something similar to Russia? Shouldn't have poked the bear. I'm an American. I don't want to kill Russians. I also don't want Ukrainians killed. How about stopping wars?

  11. 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.

    …

    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.

    …

    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.

    …

    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.

    …

    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.

  28. Rumor is that all 13,000 of these NK troops were volunteers. They were all quick to get on board because they were promised that by signing up for the mission they would get a free meal. Intelligence indicates that some 90% of them will defect to the west after they have eaten and have the strength to run.

  31. What America needs IS A STRONG LEADER!!! U THINK THESE STRONG- WILLED, HIGHLY INTELLIGENT LEADERS WITH MASSIVE MILITARY INFANTRY WOULD CONSIDER (SORRY TO SAY) ANYTHING A WOMAN PRESIDENT WITH NO WISDOM OR EXPERIENCE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS HAS TO SAY? SHOULD NOT BE THIS WAY FOR WOMEN, BUT, THE HISTORY OF THEIR CULTURE PROVES WOMEN ARE SUBSERVIENT.

  41. Look, north Korea has huge standing army Russia had huge standing army, China has huge standing army. If we keep stuffing off in Ukraine THERE WILL NOT BE A UKRAINE TO JOIN NATO!!! THERE WILL NOT BE A INTERNATIONAL RULES BASED LAW. WE ARE LOOKING AT BASICALLY AT A THROWBACK TO FEUDALISM. I don't know how much simpler it can get. But for anyone voting g trump, you think trumps buddies, Xi, Un and putin who he loves so much are gonna want you to have firearms. Nooo, trump is a puppet to putin so if you elect him what do you think will happen to your firearms. Papa putie is gonna want those gone so when he wants to destroy you, you have no defenses.

  46. Putin isn’t worried about Ukraine because Ukraine is only used as a battleground and Ukrainians are getting DELETED. Putin knows the real enemy is NATO and he’s saving his weapons and men for them and that’s why he rather uses N. Koreans and other foreign soldiers for Ukraine. Think about it, if he knows the real Threat is NATO, then why would he be wasteful and uses his best just for little Ukrainians? 🤣

  49. Noticed every Pro Ukrainians and “ military experts “ always uses these imaginary numbers of Russian lost but it’s the Ukrainians that’s kidnapping their men off the street to force them to fight and their president are always begging for help. 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤣

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