Hope they have sunflower seeds in their pockets.
Isn't 1500 soldiers like a day's work of cannon fodder? I thought they'd send a lot more.
It is, more or less. If they’re actually elite this could be helpful for Russia, but given Nork hasn’t had a conflict in decades I do question what their effectiveness will be.
They’ve been equipped with the best sticks, rocks and slingshots NK can get.
Let's be real. It's the best gear from the 1960s with some picatinny rails bolted on.
It's a lot of defectors, I'll tell you that much.
the total seems to be 12-15k. This was just a part of them
The picture looks like it’s AI generated for a The Onion piece. 😂
It's got a lot of "Dictators in Cars getting Coffee" energy to it.
Additionally, South Korean media said on Friday, citing anonymous sources, that Pyongyang has decided to dispatch a total of 12,000 troops, formed into four brigades, to Russia. The NIS did not immediately confirm these reports.
The statements come a day after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country had intelligence reports that 10,000 North Korean soldiers were preparing to enter the war
Mark Rutte, the (new) NATO Secretary General, said in some article I read that NATO does not yet have confirmation, but that "this may change".
kagis
Here's the transcript on NATO's website of a followup:
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_229585.htm
Binna Chung, Yonhap
Thank you. Binna from Yonhap News Agency. Secretary General, the South Korean Spy Agency today announced that North Korea has decided to send large scale troops to Russia and including special forces. I know that yesterday, you said you have no evidence, but since the situation has changed overnight, I want to ask you this question again. Thank you.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte
Well again, obviously, we are in close contact with all our partners, particularly, of course, the Republic of Korea. And yesterday, we have been meeting here with the IP4 partners, including Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Korea. So we will certainly have that conversation with them to get all the evidence on the table. So at this moment, our official position is that we cannot confirm reports that North Koreans are actively now as soldiers engaged in the war effort. But this, of course, might change. And anyway, even if North Korea is not physically there at the battlefield, then still they are helping to fuel Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine in every way they can. And together with others like Iran, China's playing a role here, obviously, and of course, Russia itself.
That's from today.
Mark Rutte has a very faible memory when it comes to uncomfortable facts
were issued with fake ID cards of residents of the Yakutia and Buryatia, two regions in Siberia
Yes, absolutely Serbian. You can tell because of the way they are.
Serbians are from serbia, not Siberia.
You say that. The Serbians on the other hand do as well.
I would guess that the Siberians would also say that.
Ugh. I blame it on autocorrect and swipe.
I blame the Jedi council!
What? How can you do this? This is outrageous. It’s unfair. How can you be Serbian and not be Siberian?
You can't expect Americans to know all the places their country has bombed in their lifetime
I wonder how Japan would feel about the country who is constantly testing ICBMs over their citizens and land having vulnerable soldiers ready for plucking from the world of the living?
Maybe they'd like to come show their support for Ukraine just to be able to say hello to their Korean friends.
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