Non sottovalutare le truppe nordcoreane in Russia, dicono alla BBC gli ex soldati

Judging by his size, fuhrer Kim is eating all their food. Their rations are shite. I doubt they’re much threat tbqh. Not to Ukrainian soldiers who are actually cared about by their government and know what they’re actually fighting for & why they’re there. 💙

Don’t over estimate either just estimate them, thats the sweet spot.

Reputations rise and fall on the battlefield of truth. Russian mistakes keep increasing, and their losses remain unsustainable.

War isn’t a game. Attacking a peaceful country is a criminal act.

TL; DR:

>”I think they’ll be more willing to fight than Russian troops,”

according to an North Korean defector who used to be in the army.

That’s the presumed difference. Which may very well be valid — I see no reason not to take the defector’s word for it.

But it may also not be much of a difference. Back in 2022, Russia, too, had a high willingness to fight. And yet 3 years later they have lost half their initial territorial gains, not to mention hundreds of thousands dead and closing in on a million total casualties.

Perhaps willingness to fight is not, in itself, sufficient.

For example, the article also makes the point that the North Koreans are trained to absolute obedience: execute orders instantly and without question. That is not actually a great way to conduct a war, it turns out. It sounds great on paper and soothes the ego of many a dictator but it’s not actually a tactically sound doctrine.

The problem is, as history shows, that it is hard to overcome that doctrine. The mere experience of real warfare is not sufficient to disabuse soldiers trained to rigid discipline to suddenly react more flexibly and with better individual judgement. It has to be trained out of them and that will take as long as it did to train into them in the first place. Maybe longer.

So there is a very real possibility that the endless waves of North Koreans promised by Kim will simply march in beautifully choreographed lockstep formation right into the waves of Ukrainian defensive fire, adding their 100 thousand to the hundreds of thousands already there.