Ukraine struck another oil refinery in Tatarstan and a petrochemical plant in Tyumen. Ukraine’s intelligence is reporting that up to 50,000 North Koreas are on their way to Russia to help Russia’s depleted forces. North Korea women will be used as slave labor in Russian factories and on Russian farms.
Does North Koreas population support the combat losses? Or are these conscripts auxiliary and/or non-combat to ensure they aren’t lost so quickly?
It mentions Korean women in factories, so…what there? Eventually NK has such a low population China just finally absorbs the territory?
I don’t know for sure if you mean politically support or if it’s sustainable for the North Korean population.
Obviously the political support is irrelevant, in a country where the population believe their leader is a god.
So I guess sustainability is the question.
North Korea has a population of about 26 million, and not very many old people because life expectancy is even worse than Russia. Also a very big deal of the population is in the military, so I expect if 50k people were taken out of the military without replacement, it would actually make life easier for the remaining population.
But the 50k soldiers is only 0.2% of the Korean population, so I don’t think it will threaten the sustainability of North Korea to lose every single one of them.
50k is not far from what Russia has been losing every month for 4+ years now.
Yeah that answers what I was looking for