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100,000 North Korean soldiers could be sent to bolster Putin’s forces fighting Ukraine

Up to 100,000 North Korean soldiers could be sent to bolster Vladimir Putin’s forces fighting Ukraine, according to Russian reports.
A leading defence expert in Moscow, reserve colonel Igor Korotchenko, told state TV: “We shouldn’t be shy in accepting the hand extended to us by Kim Jong-un.”
North Korea has made it clear through “diplomatic channels” that as well as providing builders to repair war damage, it is ready to supply a vast fighting force, reported Regnum news agency.


It makes for an interesting headline and saber rattling, but I question the practicality of it.
Highly doubtful as China has to approve any such transfer of forces for at least two reasons.

First, historically, China and Russia each had different types of communism going on (when Russia was the USSR) and each wooed NK with China coming out on top causing tensions and mistrust between the two to this day.

Second, any force transfer would occur over Chinese soil.
 
If this is serious, then I would speculate it may be to prevent general social instability and upheaval. Apparently, Russia has mainly been sending its ethnic minority soldiers from its far-flung outer regions to fight and die in Ukraine, rather than the ethnic "White" Western Russians who make up a majority of its population and are from the main power centers of Russia (Moscow and St. Petersburg). But from what I have heard, if more boys from the European parts of Russia who make up Putin's political base come home in bodybags, then it might cause a breakdown in Russian society as Russian fathers and mothers protest the war.

But if thousands of North Koreans die in the repression of Ukraine? Who cares?
I wonder how many Russia will send to accomplish Russkiy Mir.
 
They would all defect.
Thats assuming they don't care what the North Korean government does to their families left back home and that they aren't brainwashed believers of the North Korean regime.
 
Speaking of adding to the Russian forces fighting the Ukrainian army, we now are seeing forced conscription of Ukrainians in the occupied eastern area of Ukraine.
Ukrainian civilians are being pulled out of their workplaces and forced to 'train' before being sent to the front lines as cannon fodder.

How do you think that's going to add to the tensions in Eastern Ukraine?


Occupiers forcibly conscript men from occupied cities, even miners are taken away Luhansk Oblast Military Administration​


Ukrainska Pravda
Wed, August 3, 2022 at 10:49 PM


IRYNA BALACHUK — THURSDAY, 4 AUGUST 2022, 08:49
The Russian occupiers are suffering significant losses and are replenishing their forces with men from recently occupied settlements - even miners are being taken to the front.
Source: Serhii Haidai, the head of the Luhansk Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram
Quote from Haidai: "The occupiers do not count losses, because it is mostly the residents of the occupied territories who die. The Russians do not need them for the future, because for eight years the population of the "LPR" [self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic] has been a burden on the Russian budget. Now these financial losses are being paid off by men.

They have already mobilised everyone they could in the territories occupied in 2014. Now even indispensable miners are being taken away."
Details: Haidai noted that people are sent to military enlistment offices against their will, so the euphoria of "liberation" [by Russian soldiers] in recently captured cities and villages has quickly passed.
The head of the Oblast Military Administration reported that about 80 men have already been sent to the front in Starobilsk this week. The occupiers are specifically using these men to replenish the composition of the assault groups which are regularly neutralised by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

 
Two, they get both combat experience and N. Korea gets posted on the international stage as a world player.
Like the Russians, they'll only get an experience in what an ass-kicking feels like.
 
Speaking of adding to the Russian forces fighting the Ukrainian army, we now are seeing forced conscription of Ukrainians in the occupied eastern area of Ukraine.
Ukrainian civilians are being pulled out of their workplaces and forced to 'train' before being sent to the front lines as cannon fodder.

How do you think that's going to add to the tensions in Eastern Ukraine?


Occupiers forcibly conscript men from occupied cities, even miners are taken away Luhansk Oblast Military Administration​


Ukrainska Pravda
Wed, August 3, 2022 at 10:49 PM


IRYNA BALACHUK — THURSDAY, 4 AUGUST 2022, 08:49
The Russian occupiers are suffering significant losses and are replenishing their forces with men from recently occupied settlements - even miners are being taken to the front.
Source: Serhii Haidai, the head of the Luhansk Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram
Quote from Haidai: "The occupiers do not count losses, because it is mostly the residents of the occupied territories who die. The Russians do not need them for the future, because for eight years the population of the "LPR" [self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic] has been a burden on the Russian budget. Now these financial losses are being paid off by men.

They have already mobilised everyone they could in the territories occupied in 2014. Now even indispensable miners are being taken away."
Details: Haidai noted that people are sent to military enlistment offices against their will, so the euphoria of "liberation" [by Russian soldiers] in recently captured cities and villages has quickly passed.
The head of the Oblast Military Administration reported that about 80 men have already been sent to the front in Starobilsk this week. The occupiers are specifically using these men to replenish the composition of the assault groups which are regularly neutralised by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

That's a war crime.
Just add it to the list...
 
Up to 100,000 North Korean soldiers could be sent to bolster Vladimir Putin’s forces fighting Ukraine, according to Russian reports.
A leading defence expert in Moscow, reserve colonel Igor Korotchenko, told state TV: “We shouldn’t be shy in accepting the hand extended to us by Kim Jong-un.”
North Korea has made it clear through “diplomatic channels” that as well as providing builders to repair war damage, it is ready to supply a vast fighting force, reported Regnum news agency.


It makes for an interesting headline and saber rattling, but I question the practicality of it.
And they would all defect in a week.
 
And they would all defect in a week.
But not after those troops were told that their families were being held hostage in the event anyone gets the idea to choose a new way of life. I'm not sure a N Korean would have much success living in a war-torn Ukraine.
There's always an escape to Poland , I guess.
 
In what scenario would Russia worry about being accused of war crimes?
When Putin falls many Russians will worry about war crimes they committed.
 
Speaking of adding to the Russian forces fighting the Ukrainian army, we now are seeing forced conscription of Ukrainians in the occupied eastern area of Ukraine.
Ukrainian civilians are being pulled out of their workplaces and forced to 'train' before being sent to the front lines as cannon fodder.

How do you think that's going to add to the tensions in Eastern Ukraine?


Occupiers forcibly conscript men from occupied cities, even miners are taken away Luhansk Oblast Military Administration​


Ukrainska Pravda
Wed, August 3, 2022 at 10:49 PM


IRYNA BALACHUK — THURSDAY, 4 AUGUST 2022, 08:49
The Russian occupiers are suffering significant losses and are replenishing their forces with men from recently occupied settlements - even miners are being taken to the front.
Source: Serhii Haidai, the head of the Luhansk Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram
Quote from Haidai: "The occupiers do not count losses, because it is mostly the residents of the occupied territories who die. The Russians do not need them for the future, because for eight years the population of the "LPR" [self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic] has been a burden on the Russian budget. Now these financial losses are being paid off by men.

They have already mobilised everyone they could in the territories occupied in 2014. Now even indispensable miners are being taken away."
Details: Haidai noted that people are sent to military enlistment offices against their will, so the euphoria of "liberation" [by Russian soldiers] in recently captured cities and villages has quickly passed.
The head of the Oblast Military Administration reported that about 80 men have already been sent to the front in Starobilsk this week. The occupiers are specifically using these men to replenish the composition of the assault groups which are regularly neutralised by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.





Isn't Serhiy Haidar the ex Military Governor of Luhansk Oblast? He was fired by Putin. So it is understandable if he has some sour grapes to peddle.
 
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