Summary
North Korean troops sent to Russia to support its war in Ukraine remain sidelined due to poor training and logistical issues, according to Western officials.
These soldiers are expected to relieve Russian troops in secondary positions to free up forces for frontline battles in regions like Kursk, though they are unlikely to see combat in eastern Ukraine.
The war continues to take a massive toll, with over 700,000 Russian soldiers killed or wounded since February 2022, while both sides face challenges replacing losses.
Russia’s reliance on poorly trained recruits and prison conscripts highlights its growing manpower issues.
More poorly trained than a convict 2 weeks out of prison? Doesn’t seem possible…
I feel like tv and movies do more than we think for giving a base-layer of military training. I’m not saying it’s LIKE military training, but people have at least seen what they’re going to do before training
Training people can be harder when the trainees have to unlearn bad habits or knowledge. Ask anyone who has tutored previously self-taught students an artform or craft.
In some ways, media exposure can help to introduce broad concepts, and sometimes there are excellent examples in media (My Cousin Vinny and Legally Blonde have been used in some US law school course curriculum to show how the parts of the judicial system are supposed to operate, iirc), but oftentimes preconceived notions can hinder training for the real thing.
There’s probably a base level of competence someone who grew up in modern society has without training that the North Koreans don’t have.
Like even if a convict has never operated a drone, there’s probably a good amount of them that have played FPS games. That experience can be used as a launching board into proper training.
Meanwhile the North Koreans might have absolutely zero experience with video games and smartphones, and extremely limited experience with computers in general. There’s so much you’d have to teach them before you can even start drone training.
Unfit for battle probably means starving
there’s probably a good amount of them that have played FPS games. That experience can be used as a launching board into proper training.
1- rush into the enemies
2- get shot in the face
3- call your squadmates a racial slur
Yeah I don’t think online FPS strategies would work very well in a real war
Lol your 12&3 is a pretty good summary of Russian military history. The thing about Russians is there’s always more Russians.
You joke, but Call of Duty improved my laser tag abilities considerably. Not to say laser tag equals war, but some strategies and concepts carry over.
I bet the North Koreans are struggling with things like “left click the mouse see to select what you want. Right click the mouse to bring up an options menu.” “No. Don’t point the mouse at the screen. Just move it around on top of this little pad. See the arrow moving when you do that?”
Well it’s more like
- Use a device that is similar to a PlayStation controller to command a drone to rush into enemies
- Keep that drone alive long enough for it to crash into enemy armor and explode
- Call your enemies a racial slur
- Post the entire thing to a sketchy streaming service set to techno music.
So yeah there’s actually a non-zero amount of commonality there.
North Korea has smartphones. Now idk if the sort of people they send to die in Ukraine have ever used one, but they do have them, and apparently they’re awful
NK has developed an entire cybercrime network even
Yeah but that’s like saying the US build nuclear reactors.
You and your buddies sure don’t.
Doesn’t NK have nukes too
I don’t think so. They’ve gone on about it a lot and supposedly could have the ability but I don’t think they’ve ever done a successful launch or detonation of a nuclear weapon.
Well yeah, when they’re just cranking the hog and eating food for the first time, what did they expect?
They discovered Porn when they got to Russia and have been chronically exhausted ever since…
Developed huge muscles in one arm
Prefect for grenade throwing.
more like rock throwing. I doubt they have many grenades left. the drones keep stealing them.
They do love their missile parades…
And no matter how hard they try, they can’t fire off more than a dozen shots per day.
It would be… something if the NK troops fucked up and killed a bunch of Russians with friendly fire. The Russians would slaughter them to a man in anger. And then… 🍿
Who knew practicing to be a Rockette wouldn’t prepare you for combat lmao.
Bro I don’t think you understand the real power of dance
What about the Power of Friendship?
“Turns out the real Great Leader was the best friend we made along the way.”
Must be a fucking wird ride for these soldiers. First porn and now learning that you actually have been fucked by your own government by not even training you the way you are supposed to be trained.
Porn?
Yah, the rumor is that the north Koreans got ahold of cellphones with open web access for the first time in their life. So they immediately started watching all the porn and jacking themselves raw.
Never seen the internet in your life. 25 year old male. What’s the first thing you look for?
Images -> “큰 가슴”
Disclaimer-
“Big boobies” I don’t know Korean, and therefore blame google translate if this ends up nonsensical and/or offensive lol.
Supposedly, once they got across the border and got access to Russian smart phones, they quickly discovered porn. There were several reports (though TBF, they could have been propaganda), that the NK soldiers kept getting caught masturbating by the Russians they were working alongside, and some were incapacitated due to the fact that they had masturbation-related injuries. Like the NK soldiers just used every single opportunity to whip out their new phones and beat their meat until it was bloody.
This definitely feels like comedically outlandish propaganda. (Which often attempts to portray opposition as a bunch of dumb backwards animals with only the basest intelligence)
…but especially given their belligerent status…it’s still hilarious. 😂
I’m kinda glad I was on a 28.8k modem when I was a kid so we had to watch the naked girls come through line by line.
Saw crazy porn on VHS at 13 though and definitely beat it til it bled.
Ass an example, in the photo, if I was the flash, I could kick each one in the balls. They didn’t think that march thru! Rule #1 protect your balls. No balls? I bet the crutch still hurts if you’re a woman or asexual. Yeah, bad move NK!
Imagine the Russian commander’s surprise when he realized North Koreans don’t know anything about StarCraft!
They’re busy gooning
Who can blame them
They’re poorly trained by Russian standards? That’s impressively bad!
Came here to say that.
I want to see how the south Korean army would do against the north in a scenario where outside interference is not Allowed and nukes are banned
Melee!!!
While I think that the south korean army would be superior in every way, it‘s also safe to assume that Kim send the most expendable soldiers of his army to russia.
Man if Russia is telling you your troops are unfit for battle, you know your troops are absolute fucking garbo.
It could be the opposite, the Russians are so poorly trained they don’t recognise viable tactics that aren’t human waves.
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“It could be” covers a LOT so I’m going to give this one to you ;D
if I was a russian oligarch you couldn’t pay me enough money to admit this.
Yes I agree, the American propaganda apparatus also told me the same
What does this even mean
“according to Western Officials”, i.e. the people who are (formally or informally) at war with Russia and have been isolating North Korea. They are a very biased source
Well, what would be a less biased source on this?
Obviously the official communication channel blessed by our glorious dicta…leader ! /s
i’ll bet they get issued like 10 rounds each for those giant helical mags
IIRC from earlier reading, Russia was issuing them Russian rifles for the conflict.
I don’t think that the thumbnail is from the current deployment.
