Weapons and notes left on dead North Korean troops in Russia give Ukraine a glimpse into their mindset — and show how they are quickly adapting to modern war

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/19/ukraine-kursk-north-korean-soldiers/

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  2. and by quickly adapting.. they mean dying fairly quickly i imagine. Cause thats what it looks like.

  6. In hindsight years from now, itnwill be the west’s regret to not double down on giving ukraine more weapons and south korea’s to not send any weapons at all or allow the sales of weapons to ukraine to deter north korea from supplying troops, missiles, radar etc to russia.

    Now, in the next few years we will have a north korea with combat experience, they’ve tested their homegrown weapons against western weapons so they’ll know what to upgrade in the future,
    and most dangerously- they will have a working IRVM or ICBM tech from russia for their north korean nukes in exchange of their troops and weapons.

  10. Notes about separating into smaller groups when under artillery fire. I think we have the next Heinz Guderian here!

    They’re trying to take notes on how to commit suicide infantry attacks better, not comprehending that a war against the west would mean their entire communication infrastructure being obliterated by aircraft their radar can’t even detect while their army waits for orders. They’re playing catchup on infantry tactics from a hundred years ago.

  12. Would NK over perform in an invasion of SK? Or is their performance in Ukraine indicative of how they’d perform in SK?

  13. With trump being puppet of Russia, west forgotten japan, Korea and Taiwan are all fully nuclear capable within few weeks with all having nuclear tech and power. Just need spent fuel rods right. Only reason they don’t is because of trust with us partnership which will become shacky with trump. But doubt the generals will let that happen if

  14. All of these documents clearly show deep ideological brainwashing among the North Korean soldiers, but I do wonder to what extent actually being on a battlefield killing people and witnessing so much death has caused any of them to question what Pyongyang has been feeding them all their lives. If so then I doubt they’d incriminate themselves by writing it down, but finding personal writings would be a window into what the country is actually like we haven’t ever had before.

  15. It’s sad that as we evolve we can’t stop things like this.
    All this talk about Green land, Panama is making my stomach wrench.
    Why not go take over Russia? We’d save millions supporting the Ukrainian people

  16. I know this is a chicken and and egg situation, and I mean this extremely light heartedly as it just crossed my mind, but the picture of the Ukrainian soldiers looks like 4 guys cos playing call of duty.

    I know they aren’t, I know it’s ridiculous, but for a moment, it’s more fun right.

  17. I still can’t believe North Korean troops are fighting in Europe and the EU has pretty much just shrugged their shoulders.

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