Kim lauded fallen troops in Kursk for choosing "without hesitation the path of self-detonation and self-death."
  • Marthirial@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 hours ago

    Imagine having to “self-detonate” for this fatso who looks like he eats in one week what the soldier does in one year.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
    22·
    9 hours ago

    Why?

    It isn’t like North Korea has any technology or anything superior they should be afraid of falling into Ukraine’s hands.

    Their kit is junk and they don’t know shit.

    • twinnie@feddit.uk
      3·
      5 hours ago

      I expect they signalled their desire to be detonated by running away from the battlefield and the Russians kindly obliged.

    • Ferrous@lemmy.ml
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Their kit is junk and they don’t know shit.

      Funny, I remember the same type of characterization at the beginning of the Kursk offensive.

      “NK soldiers will be cannon fodder”
      “Theyre going to surrender”
      “They won’t make a difference”
      “They have never seen electronics before, let alone a drone”
      “Theyre going to end up cannabilizing each other on the battlefield”

      Turns out from the time the Korean soldiers arrived in October, it took them a mere 5 months to retake Kursk.

      What is it - is the enemy weak or strong? By all accounts, the Koreans exceeded expectations in Ukraine.

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        6 hours ago

        The major difference North Korea made was in two things, the construction of general defensive lines which from the little I know North Korean troops tend to be quite competent at, and in providing an attempted replacement artillery backbone to russia because Ukraine had already irrevocably broken russia’s. I wouldn’t be surprised if a significant amount of russian artillery personnel now fighting on the frontline weren’t actually trained from russians but from North Korean institutional knowledge given how severely and completely the russian military has burned through its institutional knowledge from everybody being killed in the maw.

        None of that changes the fact that North Korea infantry, artillery and mechanized elements have no relevance on a modern battlefield in terms of learning how to fight with more advanced tools and tactics. North Korea knows how to pile on artillery and how to build good defensive emplacements, they do not know how to do mechanized maneuver against a near-peer foe using cutting edge technology and tactics, they are not a military well practiced at integrating Close Air Support and Recon elements with other elements in a killchain and most of the equipment they brought was existentially vulnerable to light drone attack (such as the obsolete Koksan and the extremely exposed North Korean MLRS systems that are featured in many videos being detonated by Ukrainian drones.)

        I am sorry but russia has achieved nothing of significance since last October? They eventually took Pokrovosk but at the cost russia has paid and russia increasingly continues to pay every day this war goes on, the war is already over. The backbone of russia has been broken, North Korea could not make up for it though they honestly tried. The war will rage on for some time but there is simply no way russia can win it now and every single person condemned to death by russia continuing to refuse to admit it has already lost will be looked back on as a pointless, futile tossing away of human life.

        • Ferrous@lemmy.ml
          1·
          5 hours ago

          None of that changes the fact that North Korea infantry, artillery and mechanized elements have no relevance on a modern battlefield

          This is a fringe opinion even among NATO people. By all accounts, the Korean infantry quickly adapted to the battlefield and were formidable enemies.