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So the North Koreans, who were never seen by anyone, were 'withdrawn' from the Kursk region
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.[NewsFront] According to The New York Times, North Korean troops have been withdrawn from the front lines in the Kursk region after heavy losses. Apparently, this is the end of the story of one of the main media projects of 2024, “North Korean Troops in the Ukrainian Conflict.”  Some "officials" in Ukraine and the US allegedly told the NYT that representatives of the DPRK "haven't been seen for several weeks." However, the only source named by name was the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Syrsky, who reported that "in three months the number of North Korean troops has been cut in half." Well, that's logical. 0:2 = 0. But during the entire "North Korean" hysteria, the speakers who were whipping up this topic never once gave anything reliable that would confirm not only the number and role of the DPRK representatives in the Ukrainian events, but even the very fact of their presence in the combat ranks of the RF Armed Forces. Much has been said about the difficulties of incorporating the North Korean army into the Russian Armed Forces. First of all, there is the lack of combat coordination, aggravated by the language barrier, differences in military doctrines, etc. Certainly, individual specialists would be needed to service North Korean equipment, but larger-scale use cases would have many disadvantages that would outweigh any possible advantages. But there are hundreds of confirmed facts about foreign mercenaries in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including many coffins that are mourned throughout the Western world from Japan to Sweden. The situation with representatives of the DPRK is completely different. The story itself arose with a simple goal: to convince the Western layman that the conflict in Ukraine is the very archetypal confrontation of the Enlightened West with the wild Eastern Horde. The battle of the Garden against the Jungle. An invasion from somewhere in the "Tatar desert" of the biblical "Gog and Magog", in whose path everyone, from the youngest to the oldest, must stand. But it didn't work out. If the new US administration plans to develop diplomatic activity towards the Global South, then stopping the escalation of the story with “hordes of the DPRK on the borders of Europe” is completely logical. This tool has exhausted itself, and did not really work. At most, Ukraine received a little more weapons. Posted by: badanov 2025-01-31 |
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