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© Thomson Reuters 2024.N Korean troops suffer 100 deaths, struggling in drone warfare, S Korea says
By Jack Kim SEOUL©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
38 Comments
BeerDeliveryGuy
The video of a wounded NK soldier buried alive by his “comrades” and staring blankly into a drone camera…
Russia is using NK soldiers to clear minefields by rushing them in waves.
Back at camp the NK soldiers skate duty and training, watch porn all day on newly acquired smartphones, steal whatever food they can find, and drink hand sanitizer.
Yubaru
He should go to the front lines and give them personal instructions on how to fight in a war. Everything they do is because of his "divine" inspiration and direction, so time to put his money where his mouth is!
isabelle
Killed and maimed just to serve the brutal Kim regime, and the brutal Putin regime.
What an unmitigated waste of human life.
Zaphod
It is still an unconfirmed claim, but if they were really in Kursk, they were on Russian territory invaded by Ukraine, so not frontline troops.
HopeSpringsEternal
NK troops getting real combat INSIDE Russian territory. Pres. Kim's thus gaining valuable military insight for NK, along with military tech from Russia, military $exports, and a security alliance with Russia. Smart move by Kim.
Not saying I'm a NK fan, just calling balls and strikes!
HopeSpringsEternal
Business of "$war$", hardly pleasant but necessary evil for survival, Pres. Kim a realist in a tough neighborhood.
But Biden Admin Globalists sure $LOVE it, War's money machine with Geopolitical "Call Options" and somebody else's kids getting slaughtered = No risk for Globalists!
Fos
And the sources are: the US military dispatches. The same information coming from the Washington administration who is driving the records on Wall Street by selling hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons to Ukraine, inciting the battlefield to safeguard its own interests.
Once again this conflict reveals an unbelievable hypocrisy: regional or global powers act based on balances of power and not on motives that have to do with morals and ethics.
JJE
Not consuming anything over here. Just stating a demographic fact.
Looking forward to getting some images printed showing these NK troops.
Ken
The support for Russia, North Korea and Communism is so strong on here. But let Russia attack your country next and you'd probably will still side with them
Fos
Ken
Statistically there are higher chances that United States of America invade your country first, set up a few military basis, sells billions of dollars of weapons, and colonize your culture. What could be worse?
Ken
Is that what they tell you in the Chinese/Russian school books these days?
ClippetyClop
Getting invaded by Russia, multiple times?
Which American invasion have you commented on recently?
u_s__reamer
The world needs a system of draconian punishment for all our sociopath leaders who coldly sacrifice the lives of thousands of young men before retiring to their luxurious bedrooms.
Ricky Kaminski13
Lambs to the slaughter, bad equipment, no experience, badly trained, no common language to be able to work effectively with the Russians, a leader that is willing to sacrifice their lives before eating his ice cream , not to mention fighting a battle-hardened Ukrainian armed force defending its homeland.
Sitting ducks. Nice work Kimmy Jung. You must really love your people.
JJE
Look at the main photo, taken in Gijungdong of the Panmunjom flagpole. Distance from there to Sudzha, Sudzhanshy District of Kursk is approximately only 6,910km as the crow flies.
It'd be great to have a photo actually taken in Kursk, preferably including all these NK troops, vehicles etc. They must be extremely camera shy. Patience is a virtue, maybe next time.
Makes one wonder.
Mr Kipling
I find it quite alarming that so many JT readers take a report like this at face value. Maybe it just shows how badly they want to see anything positive coming from Ukraine or more likely it just shows the need for critical thinking to be on the curriculum in schools.
Fos
Ken
I don’t follow Chinese or Russian media, neither CNN to tell you the truth. It is mainly history books as opposed to American sources social media
I could give a list of key conflicts or wars fought by U.S. in last 40 years, as opposed to China, or so, but that would be repeating myself
finally rich
all your points conveyed in english, congratulations, you've been "colonized" ✓
Underworld
Fos
Sure. And yet it seems that you are ignorant of the key conflicts or wars fought by Russia in the same time period.
geronimo2006
Not quite . They are just being used as cheap cannon fodder so other Russian units can face less resistance, much like how Russian convicts were used. I just wonder how strong their indoctrination is when they realize they are just being ordered to die in order to clear minefields or expose Ukranian positions, especially considering they didn't exactly volunteer.
Underworld
Zaphod
At least 100 North Korean troops deployed to Russia have been killed with another 1,000 injured in combat against Ukrainian forces in intense fighting in the Kursk region
The cognitive dissonance and denial by the warmongering pro-Putin "experts" continues.
Underworld
I genuinely feel sorry for these North Korean troops. It is not their war that they fight, and they have no choice in it. It is a war fought by a corrupt Russian leader who has persuaded a corrupt North Korean leader to send his own citizens to their death to fight a war for the corrupt Russian leader's ego.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Still 1% of gdp.
But not steal your land: that is a russian thing.
And that would be inane as are all your posts. What matters is who has been at war with the UN and who has plans to wipe out 24 million people and start WW3.
Fos
Underworld
Like I said, I would prefer to stick to formal history books, I would not want to challenge you on the social media content or US military dispatches. I admit my limits :)
The only Russian source I can think of are playwrights and story writers such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Lev Tolstoj. But I know is out of contest
TaiwanIsNotChina
Is he a True Fiduciary, though?
Fos
CPowell
What is clear from the beginning is that Russia could not have the US nuclear missiles bases in Ukraine, same as Washington would not allow Moscow to hold military equipment in Canada. It is a very elementary principle of satellite countries and big empires.
TaiwanIsNotChina
There has never been or plans made to have nuclear missiles in Ukraine.
Then you best take care your neighbors rather than invade them.
Fos
Underworld
I am not much into SCI-FI sorry, and I tried to compare my sources to what are NOT essentially the military dispatches from Washington. There is a total disconnection from any psychological perception because the military/industrial complex is supported by a compliant media.
I remind you that Wall Street in on all time high despite the geopolitical tensions all over the world. Do I need to remind you the Middle East where tensions are being incited by the US made weapons ($20 billions and counting in 2024, and over 45.000 deaths). If you wold analyze these dynamics with a bit of rational we would not have this conversation
Antiquesaving
Reuters repeating anything Washington tells it.
Last I saw was a blurry picture of what looked like blurry stick figures that Ukraine claimed were NK troops.
Reuters has received $300 million in contracts from the Biden government in less than 4 years. (This was confirmed by the Biden administration).
So any claim it isn't bias has long gone sour.
Funny how this is reported without any solid facts but the facts even admitted to by Ukraine mapping, Ukraine has lost massive territory on all fronts, in Kursk Russia just recaptured a large portion in just 24 hrs, only a single supply route is still open to the Ukrainian troops soon to be trapped inside Kursk.
Pokrovsk is now just a few km away from Russia troops entering the city. Toretsk is now well penetrated and is only days away from falling to Russia.
Ukraine is encircled in multiple key areas and losing territory and once past Pokrovsk and Toretsk even according to the BBC there is very little between these 2 places and Kyiv.
But instead of telling us what is actually going on, Reuters publishes rumours.
SomeWeeb
According to Russians who are leaking info, the NKoreans don't even know how to throw grenades and they can't talk to each other, which lead to them killing 10 russians accidentally the other day.
TaiwanIsNotChina
I remind you that the US weapons industry is 1% of gdp.
Indeed.
Fos
Underworld
Fyi, last time I have checked Georgia is a sovereign nation.
Russia is not stealing Ukraine, like I said before Moscow wants a neutral, demilitarized west Ukraine, and the majority of Ukrainians want peace negotiations to start, but the Pentagon is not done and pressures the Kyiv regime to send its 18 year old kids to the battlefields.
The increasing geopolitical tensions incited by the White House outline an unfortunate fact that US diplomacy has been deeply kidnapped by the military-industrial complex. It is no surprise that American politicians' constant hype of the "Russian threat" and the "China threat" is prompting the sales of weapons to win the support of national arms dealers in elections.
Fos
Antiquesaving
Same as the CNN stories:
https://verify-sy.com/en/details/10562/Did-CNN-Fabricate-the-Story-of--Freeing-a-Prisoner-from-a-Secret-Jail--
Antiquesaving
You should look at a map and not just follow Reuters and AP Ukrainian propaganda!
Where is Avdiika now, frontline?
It looks pretty far behind the lines now in Russian held territory.
It held for 10 years including the past 2 against Russia directly, then Kursk happened and it fell with the rest following.
You seem very reluctant to check any maps, not even deepstatemaps which is Ukrainian based and Ukrainian government approved and used by western news like Reuters and AP.
Have a look, then tell us you don't just repeat USA, EU, Ukraine talking points.
Underworld
Antiquesaving
Sure. What I'm talking about is the very clear proclamation by the warmongering pro-Putinists, 3 months ago, that Pokrovsk would fall any time soon.
Fighto!
Inevitable.
Stunted little men - some just boys - thrown into a meat grinde, with ZERO experience of fighting or war. Ill-prepared, Ill-equipped and physically not up to it.
Prepare a few thousand mire bodybags for these walking targets - killed in an illegal war of aggression they have no business being in.
isabelle
Usual nonsense from our resident Russian mouthpieces, I see. Let's pick one particularly ridiculous post.
Apart from the bits that Russia stole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian-occupied_territories_in_Georgia
So, Moscow just wants to steal Ukraine's east and Crimea, and hold sway over the government and politics of the rest of it? How magnanimous your Tsar Putin is.
And the Ukrainians want Russia out of their sovereign country, and for it to stop murdering, torturing, and raping people, abducting their children, and blowing up their infrastructure.
Which tensions? Are you talking about the Ukraine war? If so, that was started by Putin, not the White House.
Please present firm evidence for this "fact."
You mean, the Russia that started the largest war in Europe since WWII? Sure, I'd say that's a threat.
You mean, the China that is illegally occupying and militarizing the South China Sea, attacking shipping, cyber-attacking, conducting economic warfare, threatening to annex the peaceful country of Taiwan, occupying Tibet, occupying part of India's territory, committing genocide in Xinjiang, etc.? Sure, I'd say that's a threat.
No, to defend against authoritarian menaces like Russia and China.