A Pentagon spokesperson said that any military personnel North Korea sent to Ukraine to aid Russian forces would just be "cannon fodder."
  • North Korean soldiers sent to aid Russia in Ukraine would be “cannon fodder,” the Pentagon said.
  • The two nations signed a new security pact, and some Korean units look set to go to Ukraine.
  • Russia is known for treating its soldiers as highly disposable and has suffered high death tolls.
  • @fluxionEnglish
    8•6 months ago

    But they do have adequate training time as well as a lifetime of experience blindly following the orders of piece of shit leaders so I don’t like where this is going. There needs to be consequences on the table for NK that avoid them flooding Ukraine with tens/hundreds of thousands of soldiers (which would be easy given they have over a million soldiers that don’t have shit to do).

    One upshot is they are still gated by equipment requirements. But there is actually a vague possibility that NK just bleeds their army dry in exchange of Jong Un getting a reach around from Putin.

    • Clay_pidginEnglish
      2•6 months ago

      Maybe KJU sees this as a way not to have to use NK’s limited food on the soldiers? We know they get more/better food than the regular populace to help prevent coups.

    • @macrocephalicEnglish
      1•6 months ago

      Losing an entire generation of productive and reproductive people is not going to do their nation any good.