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These people have grown up knowing what they cannot say and they will not be suicidal heroes and speak out about their experiences,
Lankov said
A lot of these soldiers are just humble farm boys from the countryside or junior officers who will be seeing the world beyond North Korea's borders for the first time and that will certainly make them understand that their country is isolated and extremely poor,
Andrei Lankov, a Russian-born professor of history and international relations at Seoul's Kookmin University, told DWThere have been reports that North Korean troops have been airlifted from training facilities in the Russian Far East, and it is possible they decided to fly them simply because they did not want them to see Russian towns from trains as they crossed the country,
he told DW, addingEven if much of what they are going to see will be around the front lines and will be battle-damaged villages and so on, they will still have seen the countryside of Russia before they get there and they will inevitably begin to ask themselves why their country is not rich like Russia,
he addedThey will very quickly realize the backwardness of North Korea, although I imagine the officers will try to keep the men segregated from the general population as much as possible to limit their interactions,
he saidThere will be an impact of these soldiers from what they see and do in Russia, but we cannot expect that to be politically meaningful for a couple of decades, at least,
he saidIt is reported that the video shows a North Korean mercenary fighting on the side of the Russian Federation, when he was watching dancing girls on social networks,
posted the pro-Kyiv X channel MilitaryNewsUa
I'll show you the accommodation of our new friends,
the unnamed soldier says in the video posted on X, formerly Twitter, by WarTranslated (Dmitri) as he says in a disgruntled tone that North KoreanPutin's elite have somehow managed to become not just second-rate, but third-rate soldiers in their own army,
wrote WarTranslated (Dmitri) next to the footage.jpg)
I wonder if they are really special forces,
Kim said, ... according to the Korea TimesAmong them, the elite forces are deployed overseas on highly dangerous missions, such as the kidnapping and assassination of North Korean defectors, missionaries, and covert South Korean agents,
said Lee, who The Associated Press reported served in the Storm Corps from 1998 to 2003.
They do not appear to be the finest members, however,
he told the outletThey will pave the way for the more experienced ones,
he told the outletIt was an ordinary combat engagement in the Kursk region,
Andrii Kovalenko, the head of Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation, told Business Insider's Mia JankowiczThe strength of North Korean special operations forces lies in their ability to endure harsh conditions, even when food and other resources are in short supply,
said Lim
Sharing lessons on modern combat, particularly on the integrated use of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles will be of great interest to North Korea,
said Ryan, also pointing to valuable lessons to be learned about "electronic warfare, countering air defenses, and insights gleaned from captured Western weapons in Ukraine."If Russia is having manpower issues, it will require far more North Koreans to address these challenges,
observed Mick Ryan, a retired Australian generalTheir complicated chain of command emerged from a system in which political commissars signed off on every military decision,
wrote TertitskiyUkrainian intelligence has stated that the North Koreans arrived in Russia with 500 officers and three generals,
said Ivan Klyszcz, a research fellow at the International Center for Defence and Security in EstoniaWhile translators will be helpful, this kind of communication gap can, and will, be a problem during combat operations,
said Ryan