Do North Koreans even know about cell phones and drones?
It seems to me like they’ve just been pulled into some nightmare dystopian future where mechanical birds are blowing up their comrades.
I’ve seen some videos and diaries from North Koreans talking about FPV drone attacks but I’m pretty sure they only get a very basic crash course at most before they arrive at the front. Hell, even the Russians themselves don’t have any solid strategies to deal with them aside from unreliable electronic warfare systems.
No they know machines exist. They probably just didn’t expect strategies to be so different
every single one of them probably just teenagers yoinked from their homes because they’re the only ones who can walk without a limp and/or bent back like everyone else in the village over 25
Yeah, they surely don’t even understand what country they’re in or why.
They just know if they’re captured alive, their families die.
and since they don’t know if they died or are captured there is really only one thing that happens.
I’d like to think that now that Ukraine knows this, they will be quiet about North Korean prisoners. It’s the right choice ethically, but I think there’s probably also stragic gain to be had.
Also, North Korea is dumb, but they’re not plumb dumb. If they kill enough soldiers’ families, they’ll have morale issues. They’re smart enough to “make a few examples” just to keep em terrified. Evil enough too. The whole situation sickens me. Like, I wasn’t a fan of them before but this is a whole new level of evil.
Sacrificing thousands of human lives just to get military tech.
NK needs to be conquered and liberated.
At this point, no country nearby wants that to happen. The number of refugees would be insurmountable, and the skills that they have are completely un generalizable.
That’s a very valid point. Never thought about that.
A bloodless coup then?
I just feel bad for all the north Korean citizens. Largely blameless, universally suffering.
I know. Civilians all caught up in the middle.
