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Inexperienced North Korean troops no solution to Putin’s military ‘blunders’ | Michael Clarke

  • October 19, 2024



Inexperienced North Korean troops no solution to Putin’s military ‘blunders’ | Michael Clarke

“This war is going to get a lot bigger yet.”

Putin turning to inexperienced North Korean soldiers to supplement dwindling Russian forces inside Ukraine is yet another example of his willingness to “escalate” tensions with the West to cover for his tactical “blunders”, argues military analyst and professor Michael Clarke.

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33 comments

  1. North Koreans are already running away from the front. Physically they are in poor condition frim starvation, poor health care and parasites.

  2. Well, we have Chinese and Korean troops on the ground in Ukraine, fighting for Moscow. No problem with having French, Polish, and Finnish troops on the ground in Ukraine fighting for Kiev.

  4. All Ukrainian frontline collapses . Ukrainian troops retreat. This guy, along with our British media, has been lying for three years. Final stages of war . More lies . Let's see what happens after the American elections. Ukraine project will be abandoned by America/NATO and the West.

  6. Putin made a mistake in 22 but he never would have tried had NATO had the guts to put 10,000 troops in Ukraine in 2014 after he invaded Crimea. We saw it in WWl and WWll, the west did not take a strong stand and it escalated.

  8. And here's the cheap slimy professional liar Clarke again, showing what utter contempt he has for the British people – just like Times Radio – in expecting that we're all going to believe this disgusting propaganda yet again, with not one scrap of a shred of evidence for it. When this conflict ends Michael Clarke's reputation, and that of Times Radio, will be unrecoverable.

  9. We finally have an appropriate name for Tsar Putin! I’ve been calling him “Putin the Inept”. But Putin has bankrupted his country and turned them into beggars. Folks, Vladimir is “Putin the Beggar!”

  12. What’s good for the goose has to be good for the gander?? Zelenskyy should be allowed to apply for an increase from any country he considers??? N Korean are only trained to prance around, and goose step for for their dictator Kim!!!

  18. The DPRK won't allow their soldiers to have any real contact/fraternization with the Russians (because – if they did, then they'd be regarded as suspect foreign agents on their return home: – are they even expecting the soldiers to come home?) They will have to keep them isolated & separate under constant supervision by trusted & loyal Party over-seers.

  22. DPRK gets oil from Russia. DPRK gets missile technology to heft her nuclear warheads. DPRK gets battle experience they hope to use to reunify Korea. It seems like a good deal for Kim Jun Un.

    DPRK will find the price is high as her troops enter the battle, replacing the Russian troops on the eastern front. Russian will transfer her own troops to the Kursk salient. Ukraine will have dug in for the winter. DPRK troops will suffer massive losses trying to take over villages already flattened by Russian artillery.

  23. Wait a minute…the Times is a murdoch propaganda mouthpiece. You're supposed to be pro-trump and therefore pro-putin. What's happened? Found a spine?

  25. At first I thought some of the North Korean soldiers in the parade were quite old, before I realised that they weren't necessarily old, they were SKINNY. They looked really underfed compared to professional soldiers from other countries. I still remember reading a story about a North Korean defector who received a medical check up after crossing the border and the South Korean doctors discovered intestinal parasites because of eating food which had been grown using human feces as fertiliser. I feel very sorry for the North Korean civilian population for what they are suffering under the communist dictatorship but I have less pity for non-conscript soldiers of the DPRK because they are part of the problem.

  27. Could be a possible
    Come on to draw NATO into
    The equation as this is exactly the only thing that would save Putin at this moment in time as he is obviously desperate…

  28. World War: "a war involving many large nations in all different parts of the world."

    So what part of the world is not included yet? Like every continent have had someone fight there, have someone supporting one or the other side and you can't compare a "modern connected world" with what it looked like in the past. Even in WW2 there was only fighting in Asia, Europe and Africa so the same as now. The difference is that this is the start of it while everyone compares it to what the war looked like at its "peak moment", I assume that one also started slowly and one action lead to the next… You are still living in denial and if you wont wake up it will become worse, so the sooner we show our real strength the smaller the war will be…. You all just aren't ready to do the sacrifice now to spare the people in the near future from a more horrible war… Like this wouldn't have started if we just had put our armies at Russia's border and said "We are also training so we will only do as you do", would have started a cold war but that's better than this active one that will spread…

  30. N. Korean troops are a "red line" for the U.S.? In response, will the U.S. finally allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles? My bet is that nothing will change. That is, of course, unless the N.Koreans have a major effect on Ukrainian lines. At that point discussions will become more serious but, any decision will still wait for some politically opportune moment. If ever.

    Most of "the West" are as afraid of losing the war as they are of the fallout from beating Putin.

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