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02-12-2024, 09:43 AM
The precise quantity and capabilities of North Korean troops deployed to bolster Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine remain unknown, observers
estimate about 11,000 North Korean troops have moved into Russia’s Kursk region, and there is growing consensus that at least some have been on the battlefield. “They’re moving into Kursk for a reason,” US Defense Dept Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said in mid-Nov 2024. “We have every expectation that they would be engaged in some combat op.” North Korea claim to eventually may deploy 100,000 troops, Assessments of their capabilities are wide-ranging, BBC News stated.
While South Korean & Ukrainian intelligence services have said many troops are among Pyongyang’s best, military analysts question their value in their war, now in its 3-year, is facing language barriers & other interoperability challenges, along with unfamiliar terrain. Despite being part of one of the world’s largest military forces with 1.28 million active soldiers, North Korean troops have not engaged in combat since the Korean War armistice in 1953. Pyongyang’s forces are “thoroughly indoctrinated but with low readiness,” Mark Cancian, a senior advisor with U.S.-based Center for Strategic & Int'l Studies, told the BBC in mid-November. Bloomberg reported.
More than 1,000 Russian troops, including mercenaries, convicts & poor rural conscripts, reportedly are killed daily in the conflict, said Western military officials. North Korean regime’s troop deployment signals Moscow’s growing desperation amid heavy battlefield losses, analysts say.V“Average Russian soldier is going to say, ‘What are they doing here? I’m having to hold their hand. I’m tripping over their bodies,’” Sydney Seiler, a former U.S. national intelligence officer for North Korea, told NBC News.
“None would think they are going to Russia to die,” Choi Jung-hoon, a former first lieutenant in the North Korean army and the leader of an activist group in Seoul, South Korea, told Military.com.
https://ipdefenseforum.com/2024/12/north...t-ukraine/
estimate about 11,000 North Korean troops have moved into Russia’s Kursk region, and there is growing consensus that at least some have been on the battlefield. “They’re moving into Kursk for a reason,” US Defense Dept Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said in mid-Nov 2024. “We have every expectation that they would be engaged in some combat op.” North Korea claim to eventually may deploy 100,000 troops, Assessments of their capabilities are wide-ranging, BBC News stated.
While South Korean & Ukrainian intelligence services have said many troops are among Pyongyang’s best, military analysts question their value in their war, now in its 3-year, is facing language barriers & other interoperability challenges, along with unfamiliar terrain. Despite being part of one of the world’s largest military forces with 1.28 million active soldiers, North Korean troops have not engaged in combat since the Korean War armistice in 1953. Pyongyang’s forces are “thoroughly indoctrinated but with low readiness,” Mark Cancian, a senior advisor with U.S.-based Center for Strategic & Int'l Studies, told the BBC in mid-November. Bloomberg reported.
More than 1,000 Russian troops, including mercenaries, convicts & poor rural conscripts, reportedly are killed daily in the conflict, said Western military officials. North Korean regime’s troop deployment signals Moscow’s growing desperation amid heavy battlefield losses, analysts say.V“Average Russian soldier is going to say, ‘What are they doing here? I’m having to hold their hand. I’m tripping over their bodies,’” Sydney Seiler, a former U.S. national intelligence officer for North Korea, told NBC News.
“None would think they are going to Russia to die,” Choi Jung-hoon, a former first lieutenant in the North Korean army and the leader of an activist group in Seoul, South Korea, told Military.com.
https://ipdefenseforum.com/2024/12/north...t-ukraine/
