- North Korean soldiers sent to aid Russia in Ukraine would be “cannon fodder,” the Pentagon said.
- The two nations signed a new security pact, and some Korean units look set to go to Ukraine.
- Russia is known for treating its soldiers as highly disposable and has suffered high death tolls.
Pretty much. They have zero combat experience. I’m sure Putin doesn’t expect them to achieve much in terms of actual military conquest.
But haven’t you seen the video of NK soldiers do flips and throw knives and shit? Who needs combat experience?
Who would you rather have at your side on the battlefield, a hardened combat veteran or a circus performer?
Dude, they can swallow flaming swords and shit. That’s gotta count for something, right?
Maybe it’s the swallowing feature what makes them so attractive… uhm… tactically valuable for the Russian military.
But they do have adequate training time as well as a lifetime of experience blindly following the orders of piece of shit leaders so I don’t like where this is going. There needs to be consequences on the table for NK that avoid them flooding Ukraine with tens/hundreds of thousands of soldiers (which would be easy given they have over a million soldiers that don’t have shit to do).
One upshot is they are still gated by equipment requirements. But there is actually a vague possibility that NK just bleeds their army dry in exchange of Jong Un getting a reach around from Putin.
Losing an entire generation of productive and reproductive people is not going to do their nation any good.
Maybe KJU sees this as a way not to have to use NK’s limited food on the soldiers? We know they get more/better food than the regular populace to help prevent coups.