Russia on brink of ... NOPE! Russia INVADES Ukraine!

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jdubs03

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While NK doesn't value lives; SK does so i doubt they would send troops to a meat grind.
It was more in jest than seriousness. The idea being SK hates NK to the point that they’d help an enemy of NK.
Ukraine would be quite happy just to gain access to South Korean arms.
Indeed. They certainly could use them. Maybe this move from NK might spur them to lend a hand.
 

trenchfoot

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For those NK troops sent to Russia, I really don't understand how gaining combat experience from being the first echelon in a meat wave attack is going to help Kim Jong Un improve the lethality of his troops back in N. Korea. The only thing I can think of as far as whatever survivors are left that don't get shot for being cowards on their way back to their lines is how to surrender without getting their heads blown off because returning alive from a one way trip to the front means they disobeyed orders to get hit with as many rounds as possible before dropping dead in their tracks.

For the RU troops, I can imagine them thinking "hey, better them than us" as far being mine detectors.
 

kage69

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Putin used a lot of carrots. Food, fuel, technology, and I believe the prospect of the NK military gaining some measure of modern battlefield EW and drone experience also factored in. Kim himself now seems rather taken with drones, wants NK to develop that production capacity and know-how after seeing what Ukraine has done with them. It's a big leap for a military that is still trying to leave the 60s. Since that generation has passed, NK troops are more experienced at farming than fighting.

Kissing 10k troops goodbye for easier winters and missile/satellite tech is probably an easy call for an imperious, attention seeking, power hungry sociopath like Kim.

A shame, but whatever. Ultimately this joining of the party by NK will benefit Ukraine more than Russia, thanks to South Korean arms prowess. Seoul can give Putin the finger now, effectively saying 'tough shit shorty, we warned you.' 'Anything the people on the other side of our DMZ do, is our affair.'
 
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Perknose

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For those NK troops sent to Russia, I really don't understand how gaining combat experience from being the first echelon in a meat wave attack is going to help Kim Jong Un improve the lethality of his troops back in N. Korea. The only thing I can think of as far as whatever survivors are left that don't get shot for being cowards on their way back to their lines is how to surrender without getting their heads blown off because returning alive from a one way trip to the front means they disobeyed orders to get hit with as many rounds as possible before dropping dead in their tracks.

For the RU troops, I can imagine them thinking "hey, better them than us" as far being mine detectors.
This is simply a quid pro quo wherein RU gets some walking meat and NK gets some more advanced RU military tech. Two countries who don't much value their own citizens using combat meat as currency. So lovely!
 
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K1052

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Russia has been going balls to the wall on developing Biological Weapons, including Ebola.
Large scale development since the war started.


The dirty secret of chemical and bio weapons programs are that they are massive headache that you are most likely to make a mistake with and F yourself and if you use them you're probably getting nuked six ways to Sunday in response.
 

K1052

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I think South Korea will lift their prohibition on arms to Ukraine pretty soon. DPRK is not doing this for free and probably means substantial technology transfers to improve their own weapons which are intended use on South Korea. Arming the Ukrainians to punish DPRK/Russia for this is a logical move.
 
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fskimospy

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The dirty secret of chemical and bio weapons programs are that they are massive headache that you are most likely to make a mistake with and F yourself and if you use them you're probably getting nuked six ways to Sunday in response.
Is it even a secret? Chemical and biological weapons are notoriously a mixture of ineffective and/or untargetable.

The primary reason you don’t see chemical and biological weapons used more is that they suck.
 

Perknose

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North Korea doubles its military forces fighting for Russia.
In additional round of 10,000 men are being sent.
They'd better hurry and get the second 10,000 there before the first 10,000 are exterminated.
 

Jaskalas

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They'd better hurry and get the second 10,000 there before the first 10,000 are exterminated.
What is the population of North Korea anyhow? Sure Kim is thrilled to have fewer mouths to feed.
Are we going to mock the situation as Ukraine has to expend precious men and ammo to chew through another 10,000... 100,000. Or 1,000,000 more men? We don't know where this ends. Today it's all fun and games, but tomorrow? Next month? Next year?

If I sound sour, it is because we need to step up and do more as a nation. As a collective western civilization. Lest we want to sit idly by as the East invades, slaughters, and claims the breadbasket of Europe in their opening move for World War 3. Securing those resources is a keystone to future conflict and the blackmailing of Africa and Europe. If we display weakness, we will invite ever increasing challenge to a once stable world.
 

akugami

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What is the population of North Korea anyhow? Sure Kim is thrilled to have fewer mouths to feed.
Are we going to mock the situation as Ukraine has to expend precious men and ammo to chew through another 10,000... 100,000. Or 1,000,000 more men? We don't know where this ends. Today it's all fun and games, but tomorrow? Next month? Next year?

If I sound sour, it is because we need to step up and do more as a nation. As a collective western civilization. Lest we want to sit idly by as the East invades, slaughters, and claims the breadbasket of Europe in their opening move for World War 3. Securing those resources is a keystone to future conflict and the blackmailing of Africa and Europe. If we display weakness, we will invite ever increasing challenge to a once stable world.

Kim was crying and asking his populaces to have more babies in December of 2023. While no concrete numbers seem to be released outside, at the very least we know the population is in decline. Not surprising, considering the deplorable conditions north Koreans are subject to. People with no hope aren't exactly keen on having more babies.
 

zinfamous

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For those NK troops sent to Russia, I really don't understand how gaining combat experience from being the first echelon in a meat wave attack is going to help Kim Jong Un improve the lethality of his troops back in N. Korea. The only thing I can think of as far as whatever survivors are left that don't get shot for being cowards on their way back to their lines is how to surrender without getting their heads blown off because returning alive from a one way trip to the front means they disobeyed orders to get hit with as many rounds as possible before dropping dead in their tracks.

For the RU troops, I can imagine them thinking "hey, better them than us" as far being mine detectors.

1: less mouths to feed. starving peasants that are just expenses
2: posters of brave heroes to plaster about the fake cities for all those citizens that need a new symbol to worship, while they eat the corpse of granny in order to stave off starvation.

It's a wonderful place, really. Great ally to have. would visit!
 

zinfamous

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Putin used a lot of carrots. Food, fuel, technology, and I believe the prospect of the NK military gaining some measure of modern battlefield EW and drone experience also factored in. Kim himself now seems rather taken with drones, wants NK to develop that production capacity and know-how after seeing what Ukraine has done with them. It's a big leap for a military that is still trying to leave the 60s. Since that generation has passed, NK troops are more experienced at farming than fighting.

Kissing 10k troops goodbye for easier winters and missile/satellite tech is probably an easy call for an imperious, attention seeking, power hungry sociopath like Kim.

A shame, but whatever. Ultimately this joining of the party by NK will benefit Ukraine more than Russia, thanks to South Korean arms prowess. Seoul can give Putin the finger now, effectively saying 'tough shit shorty, we warned you.' 'Anything the people on the other side of our DMZ do, is our affair.'

well, I hope so

Let's see if Samsung let's SK do anything. ...really.
 

K1052

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Is it even a secret? Chemical and biological weapons are notoriously a mixture of ineffective and/or untargetable.

The primary reason you don’t see chemical and biological weapons used more is that they suck.

Yes this is why every body just wants the bomb.
 
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1: less mouths to feed. starving peasants that are just expenses
2: posters of brave heroes to plaster about the fake cities for all those citizens that need a new symbol to worship, while they eat the corpse of granny in order to stave off starvation.

It's a wonderful place, really. Great ally to have. would visit!
North Korea is like a pace frozen in Medieval times, its people are smaller than South Koreans due to not having a proper diet as children, even their leaders and generals are smaller.
Then there is stuff like this where these people could easily have been plucked out of any place in Europe during Medieval times. They have no clue what to do other than sit still and stare at this bizarre machine they have no knowledge of


Around ten years ago I saw a video of some photographer who was allowed in NK with escort. They went to some obviously staged market where there was boxes of food but apparently no food inside the boxes. He wanted to buy some trinket and the young woman at the register appeared to have never seen cash before and if I remember right she was incapable of counting it and giving change. Essentially like a Medieval peasant would be like if we propped them next to a cash register.
 
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Are you sure that wasn't America?
Yes I am certain every American is capable of counting and has seen its country’s cash. I am certain an overwhelming amount of Americans know how to use a mouse and navigate a web page, you would have to expend a lot of energy searching to find enough Americans that would fill a room of that size and be incapable of doing anything on similar machines.
 
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