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North Korean soldiers' reactions to drone warfare must've been like the Mongol's reaction to gunpowder Edit: A couple people have told me that the Mongols were, in fact, aware of gunpowder by the time the Chinese used it against them. You learn smth new every day! Thanks guys
Mongols encountered gunpowder weapons centuries before their conquest even started. While specific shapes of it were novel to them it was not a shock. They were just refinements of weapons their great-grandfathers had encountered. I would compare this to the Haudenosaunee encountering firearms for the first time to be a better analogy.
@@CelesteO-h6w I mean it's recorded in writing. The first European to meet them describe them in woven suits of armor that are easily pierced by his bullets. As they retreat they throw off their ineffective armor. The next recording of them in combat depicts them without armor. They literally rejected their armor after it failed to protect one of their champions. I don't see that as offensive but historically accurate.
Even if they're all brainwashed and fully committed it makes sense that a military with zero practical experience with actually fighting a war (especially with a lack of exposure to a lot of modern military tech and hardware) wouldn't perform well on the battlefield.
Despite the straight up adversarial relationship the North Koreans have with Japan, they really do seem like more outdated and malnourished version of the WW2 imperial Japanese army. Probably would suck to end up in hand to hand combat with them, and unlikely to force them into routes. However, if they could be put into maneuver warfare, they might as well just be a small speed bump to a tank
Nothing says "military super power" quite like deploying troops from a country sporting cutting edge 1960s technology and conscripts that are shorter than average due to routine childhood malnutrition.
I am a former military, senior sergeant NCO and served in my country Somalia, I oversees several Combat operations against brutal suicidal Alshabaab terrorists but when a soldiers are fallen or got injured, it matters no one except his beloved family, father and mom, Brother's and sister's, I totally resigned, quit out very fast. Simon this point you're very right, right issues that affects globally armies. Thank you very much for Bringing up attentions.
You cam from Somalia? If you don't mind me asking, are things still as bad in the country as it was back in the 2000s, with stories of how the government doesn't even control most of the capital of Mogadishu? And are you still living there right now? If so, what is the day-to-day situation like for the people there? Thanks.
@chankljp it's a good question, the government is still fragile and lack competent government officials, It control the capital city but still terrorists and independent militia's groups are operating shadowly and sometimes openly we they wants, now I'm not in Somalia, I just left few years ago, but the biggest challenge in Somalia recently is terrorists, political instability and corruptions frauds of the political elites, foreign interferences is sometimes seen, that is the reaL situation in Somalia.
Fun fact: Kim and Putin both speak German very well. So it's probable they talk with each other in German and thus also get along well on a personal level.
Ever watch the deep dive on Kim on Rotten Mango? It explores his childhood and pretty much the known psychology of who that guy is. It's fascinating. Strong recommend.
Kim went to the International School of Berne in Gümligen, Switzerland under the name Chol-pak or Pak-chol. Which in addition to English(as an international school), has French and German as additional languages.
Kim was never going to let any of the North Korean soldiers who were sent to fight Ukraine return home alive after seeing the world outside of North Korea’s borders.
Eh, these were already "the most loyal elite troops", and they now have knowledge that's priceless to the Kim regime as trainers for the rest of the army. However you don't need very many trainers, so the few that survive the meat grinder without defecting or surrendering will likely be hailed as heroes, promoted, and given a lavish position and placed in boot camps to train new soldiers in the ways of the western military combat.
You really have no idea about the motivations of Kim, do you? More than anything, the North needs military experience in modern warfare, and fighting in Ukraine gives them that kind of experience. There’s no way Kim would have hoped for all those soldiers to be mowed down and not share that experience they’d have gained with the rest of his military.
@@Patson20exaclty which isn’t good, almost as if they are gaining this experience for the future they saw an opportunity to actually engage in a conflict and jumped on it. Hopefully history doesn’t repeat itself yet again!
The phrase “one of North Korea’s most elite military units” doesn’t really mean a whole lot when the Korean “People’s Army” hasn’t evolved past 1953. And let’s be real, the Russians were always going to use them exclusively as cannon fodder, the same way they use penal battalions, foreign mercenaries, Donbas separatist militias, and ethnic minorities.
To be fair, at least the KPA of 1953 were battle-hardened, the ones who survived that is. Even China and Russia takes part in the occasional peacekeeping operation.
As is typical in closed off totalitarian states, these troops are certainly unaware of both who they are actually fighting or the technology being deployed against them.
@@Guadalajara1937 Yes, and they are barely going ahead. Not to mention that was taken in the first few weeks if the war. It’s like saying “4/5” of Afghanistan is under American control. Doesn’t matter, getting beaten in a battle or campaign by an inferior force is still an embarrassment.
Not worried about the current capabilities of North Korean infantry. Not worried about the FUTURE capabilities of North Korean infantry. Worried that they are NOW seeking to gather "field experience"...
But there are a side effect, "dangerous ideas" been spread to the soldiers and I even said about Western ideas, Russian Ideas should look dangerous enough
Practical modern field experience isnt particularly common in Russia. They have been using the same tactics since start of the war. Now instead of prisoners they are using NK.
@@highbread817 1000 men supporting rebels in a small portion of the country isn’t “fighting a war” From 2015-2021 Basically nothing happened The casualties from both sides during that period could be made up on one side in a week during the current conflict Not at all a good point That, and the original point was that Russian tactics aren’t worth following, experience in the field doesn’t equate to good warfare tactics/strategy The concerning part would the the logistics they learn Which is something Russia has improved in, cause at the start their logistics were basically nonexistent
0:45 - Chapter 1 - The situation in kursk today 1:45 - Chapter 2 - How did we get here ? 4:40 - Chapter 3 - Analysis of NK performance in kursk 7:30 - Chapter 4 - Why kim may not be bothered 11:20 - Chapter 5 - The kursk "meat grinder"
It's funny that Russia is willing to use foreign troops and North Korea is willing to send them but Ukraine's allies won't send troops for fear of escalation.
It's more a matter of logistical and political strategy tbh. The fear of escalation is a civilian issue narrative more then an geopolitical one. Trust me, there's like thousands of generals that would just love to send troops to Ukraine to prove their worth and in the political realm everyone understands that nuclear escalation would be preferable to Russian occupation where all political elite would be assassinated anyway. Everyone in a leading position would opt to try and end it in Ukraine with conventional force or escalate to full nuclear exchange over fighting Russia in their own territory. Russia understands this as well and Putin knows there is a red line were troops would be sent to Ukraine. Hence why he initially tried to achieve his goals quickly, while the world was still in a state of shock. What's happening now is a matter of draining the Russian war machine until it or the Russian society breaks so it Russia themselves lose the confidence in their capacity to engage in a conflicts for decades to come. And if they still felt ambitious enough to try something they would be so wounded that 1: Whoever they attack are confident enough to resits 2: Would have a good chance of defeating em. 3: Russia wouldn't take a gamble and attack a country with serious military backing. This is the dark reality of a world with thermonuclear weapons. You have to asses the risks and preference when engaging with these states. If the choices were UK/France/US occupation or nuclear war, people would chose occupation. Because Russia conducts itself the way it does, it would simply mean torture, rape, murder, terror and fear on it's population and then they would just use what's left as meat shields to attack the next country, at that point what's the point of conceding? Then you might as well just escalate the conflict to where Russia themselves become so frightened that they will have to will escalate to nuclear war and pull back, or just actually escalate it to nuclear war. Being vaporized is preferable to occupation.
Many foreign troops have been killed in Ukraine, they just call them volunteers. They also don't report on the mercenaries. The EU and the US has also been giving Ukraine weapons systems that have to be maintained and programmed by foreign troops, so they are there. If you only listen to propaganda from the west, you are going to be seriously ignorant of what is going on over there. India news is a little better, and there are some independent reporters from both the Ukraine and the Russian sides who line up pretty close in their reporting of the situation.
I feel so sorry for those north Korean soldiers. They're already in such a horrific situation at home and now they're forced into a meat grinder. And their world view is so tightly controlled that they really don't know any other reality.
the Ukrainians in Kursk is not the first incursion into Russian territory since WWII. During the Chechen wars, Chechen forces staged some incursions into Russian controlled autonomous republics in the Caucasus.
North Korea has also engaged in combat since the end of the Korean armistice in 1953. North Korea had boots on the ground and even combat aircraft on the northern side during the Vietnam war.
Imagine being teleported to a futuristic dystopian hell hole of a war zone, being set to die. They’re not even toy soldiers, just biological units, of the lowest form. Malnourished, unable to speak, fighting faceless enemies, for no reason that they’re privy to. These guys are living ‘Come and See’ by the thousands. It’s insane how lucky I am. If there is a god, may he have mercy on their souls.
I recall seeing a video of a drone operator flying in a way that made a north korean troop shoot his collegue. Whether real or fake, mere thought of this situation possibly being real was scary
It's probably a lot easier said than done, but there has to be a temptation for these North Korean troops to just say "Fuck It" and make a break for freedom or even intentionally getting captured by Ukrainian forces just so they don't have to go back to North Korea?
Not likely. In the North Korean military, soldiers are conditioned to kill themselves to avoid capture. This is because in North Korea, surrender or capture is seen as equivalent to treason. As such, to avoid dishonor (and retribution against their families), they think it’s better to die even by their own hand than to be captured.
@@jamesleggett9644 Indeed. In fact, Ukraine has been recommended to not publicize NK PoW names or images so that their families can't be punished for their capture.
Its also the same as to why so few people leave NK, and that many only attempt it if they can get their family out as well. A few years ago, Kim decreed that diplomatic staff had to leave their family behind in NK exactly because of them defecting
My heart goes out to those North Korean soldiers. They already face immense challenges in their daily lives, and now they're subjected to even greater hardships. It's heartbreaking to think about how deeply they are influenced, leaving them unaware of any other reality.
I suspect that most of those North Korean's were never going home. They've been exposed to too much 'wealth and freedom', even in Russia. It would become a problem for the leadership back home. Those boys were sent on a one-way trip.
Remember, the NK troops basically showed up with no training, no situational awareness, not even a competent core of translators. I would expect going forward to see improvement both as they learn to use modern equipment like FPVs, and are able to fully coordinate thier own actions with a trained Korean speaking officer corps. Russia was unable to make gains for almost 2 years, even losing large amounts of ground. Now, they understand effective tactics, and are grinding forward. The North Korean learning curve will be much faster.
Gotta remember though that unlike Russian soldiers the Koreans are ideologically brainwashed and not allowed to adopt "western ideas" without being Labelled traitors
Is there a term for distillation of a military force? If you have a too large, inexperienced military, you send groups off, rotate back whoever survives and use there experience to seed / harden the rest of the units.
Sending frontline troops is a big thing. Plus, it’s got more to do with the publicity, European governments don’t like to talk about the NATO technicians, trainers and other personnel in Ukraine.
No it's not ok for Russia to do ANY of this. But we live in a world where laws are mutable and have little consequences unless you are one of the poor.
@@HeadCannonPrime as a french we know we have a lot of troops in ukraine too, i think its a common thing to use mercenary or foreign troops from yours allies to help ( our foreign legion ) and if im not mistaken they have sign a defensive alliance sooo declaring war to russia is declaring war to NK
@kwhizzorkizz4605 Oh trust me man, I haven't, but I can't imagine a leader willing to sacrifice his followers could have any other sort of sentiment towards doing so. The minds of madness.
N.Korean troops fighting gamers flying drones whos always had snacks is a hilarious turn of after they spent all this time since the 50s training to fight a standing military XD
An error, so to speak, in this analysis. NK soldiers are seen as inactive economic units that just drain resources training. In reality, the NK army soldiers probably do more farming than training, so its not like Kim can just send brigade after brigade to the slaughterhouse and expect things to get better
This is a wake up call to the whole world. The status quo is broken. Feared and once thought powerful armies are being shown as incompetent, corrupt, lacking in experience or a mix of all three. The same is probably true for most of the world that has not seen conflict in the last 50 years. Training and reputation can only take you so far. And many Nato nations have not fought in decades, this should bring concern to Nato that these allies are likely to under preform in a near peer conflict. On the flip side its almost certain that the issues that plagued Russia early in the war and that plague NK will also plague China should they enter conflict. It is unlikely that much reform was actually done to its military since 2022, despite what they claim and that corruption runs rampant in their military. Like wise while they show ferocity and have massive numbers of soldiers the actual combat experience they have in near peer conflicts in the modern age is 0.
If you need North Korean forces and still can’t achieve you objective it not only shows that you are beyond desperate and doomed but also no superpower.
Imagine how hard they'd fight for freedom if they were made to believe that the rest of the world believe their lives matter as much as their own. I've watched videos of NK's that have managed to defect be absolutely floored by how kind Americans treat them, especially the soldiers. I saw a video on Dimple where soldiers sent a care package, and the ex-NK started sobbing. They sent him snacks, a t-shirt and toy soldiers. Hell, it may have been his very first toy EVER. Americans LOVE freedom to the point where it's a joke, so I think it's easy for them to sympathize. It will take generations to undo the damage; I want these people to be rescued so bad.
North Koreans soldiers may well have thought they would be fed properly every day, and all you have to do is join the second most powerful army in the world. Can't help but wonder, and it sounds a bit cold, but captured North Koreans have to be interrogated to understand the mindset.
Simon & Crew - Something I believe you've missed, is that as far as the Kim Regime are concerned, all of the soldiers they sent are already dead. Sure, they would like the Generals & Staff Officers back, but the boots-on-ground guys? D.E.A.D. Moreover, as far as the Kim Regime is concerned, they've been dead since the moment they crossed the border out of the DPRK. NONE of them are EVER going home - too much of a risk to the Regime. They've seen too much Russian Decadence(!) to ever be trusted again. They've been exposed to luxuries like meats that aren't dog, indoor plumbing, and Internet Porn. No. Kim and his cronies can't afford to let those guys back into the DPRK. They would pose too much of a risk just for having seen what is available OUTSIDE the DPRK. There would be far too much risk of them saying something that could destabilize the Regime... So, yeah. Those DPRK troops are never going home again, no matter what. They'll either die on the battlefield, die while "being cared for" in Russian Military Hospitals, disappear into Russia as new citizens, or surrender/be captured by Ukraine. None of them will ever go home again...
Since the soldiers sent to Ukraine have been exposed to western technology (such as the internet) and actual food, I highly doubt that Kim is going to allow any of those North Korean soldiers to return. The combat experience they will learn in Ukraine will not be enough to compromise the risk of having these soldiers to return with the knowledge they learned about the outside world. I disagree with you, Simon. Kim is not going to have these soldiers return just because they have combat experience in a modern war. Their knowledge of what the west offers to the people is too dangerous to allow have spread across their military in North Korea.
Dude, that’s not even close to how you pronounce “Hanuel”. Korean pronunciation actually isn’t that hard for English-speakers. For all the people dunking on the North Korean military - sure, but don’t get cocky. North Korea has a long history of fairly competent ground forces. I’m sure they’re under-equipped, and the NKPA hasn’t seen combat in a while, and they don’t call it the hermit kingdom for nothing, so who knows for sure. But I wouldn’t assume the NKPA isn’t hardy and resourceful and resilient and probably overall significantly more effective than many of the undertrained Russian units that Putin considers expendable. Maybe they aren’t! But it would be wise not to underestimate their infantry.
@ interesting. Because the only footage released by Ukraine of these individuals had no audio so there’s no evidence proving what language they speak. They certainly look more Tuvan or Mongol than Korean to anyone with the first clue of biometrics
3:34 Am I the only one who finds the watermark 'Khorne Group' distinctly disturbing? And wonders wth was inspired by warhammer to use this in real world war footage?
Slavs love Warhammer. It is massive in Eastern Europe. The Russians were literally making 40k style purity seals to wear on their armor like Space Marines. Just with Christian prayers instead...
I mean there's troops on both sides rocking purity seals, Aguila's and all kinds of other 40k iconography. Nerds are gonna be nerds, even on the battlefield. A lot of the people I've encountered in the hobby are ex military. Hell my one buddies dad has stories of them playing D&D back during Desert storm in whatever random space they could find and use.
@@9mm_Retirement Yeah, there is also a somewhat famous photo floating around Warhammer forums of some coalition tankers playing 40k during Desert Storm using rocks for models, a dip-stick from a T-72 as a measuring stick, and a copy of White Dwarf for the rules. 40k is definitely pretty popular in the military community. Most of the guys I play with are either current, reserve, or former military.
Every time Ukraine vs. Russia is bought up, every video. The number of "people" that have never been anywhere near a war, the military or Eastern Europe that are suddenly scholars on the issue with strong opinions is amazing.
too much philosophy, it NK duty to send troops to Kursk region, as per their agreement, if anyone attacks Rus or NK territory, other must help and participate, end, thats the point of mutual protection deals, it's like their NATO
Can you speak to us like you would in a normal conversation? Whatever this accent is distracting. You do it on other videos but really leaned into it On this one
These guys don't even know who they're fighting
Or that they are fighting in the first place
If reports are to be belived they thought they were on a training exercise
@@nikolaideianov5092imagine 😂 “training exercise” then you see your buddies head fly off.
@@nikolaideianov5092 just like the Russians in 2022
@H_whit99 Imagine a "training exercise" where the tiny UFO that did that then chases you down to mete out the same fate
🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🎉🎉🎉🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺All Việt Nam peoples stand with Russi@ and support HomeLand Protection War of Russi@ Peoples, side by side.
Zelen, lets stop being a W3stern Pupp3t, let Ukraina people safe, paece and Indefendance. Lets learn from VietNam-Americ@ war in 1975, lets learn about The Salt pepper of Iraq.
Nowaday, All VietNam people LOL when talking about Pupp3t Zelen, him taken Ukraina people in his war, like la pawn on W3stern Chess Play. Think about Việt Nam, zelen!.
North Korean soldiers' reactions to drone warfare must've been like the Mongol's reaction to gunpowder
Edit: A couple people have told me that the Mongols were, in fact, aware of gunpowder by the time the Chinese used it against them. You learn smth new every day! Thanks guys
Mongols encountered gunpowder weapons centuries before their conquest even started. While specific shapes of it were novel to them it was not a shock. They were just refinements of weapons their great-grandfathers had encountered. I would compare this to the Haudenosaunee encountering firearms for the first time to be a better analogy.
@@mormacil That was gonna be the first analogy I went for, tbh, but I was worried it'd be offensive 😅 I guess I gotta stop being such a snowflake
@@CelesteO-h6w I mean I would count it as a plus if you make insensitive karens show their true colors.
Comparing NK to Mongols is crazy work 🤣 Mongols were at least bad ass
@@CelesteO-h6w I mean it's recorded in writing. The first European to meet them describe them in woven suits of armor that are easily pierced by his bullets.
As they retreat they throw off their ineffective armor. The next recording of them in combat depicts them without armor.
They literally rejected their armor after it failed to protect one of their champions. I don't see that as offensive but historically accurate.
Even if they're all brainwashed and fully committed it makes sense that a military with zero practical experience with actually fighting a war (especially with a lack of exposure to a lot of modern military tech and hardware) wouldn't perform well on the battlefield.
It was the outcome basically everyone expected.
Despite the straight up adversarial relationship the North Koreans have with Japan, they really do seem like more outdated and malnourished version of the WW2 imperial Japanese army. Probably would suck to end up in hand to hand combat with them, and unlikely to force them into routes. However, if they could be put into maneuver warfare, they might as well just be a small speed bump to a tank
Nothing says "military super power" quite like deploying troops from a country sporting cutting edge 1960s technology and conscripts that are shorter than average due to routine childhood malnutrition.
Then watching them desert after a couple of days with access to PornHub.
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The Kims? Being inhumane? Perish the thought!
They claim to be themselves
@@bigpapa1954 and some jumped up, mimbling little scabs in the West believe them, but alas.
the thought was perished for the greater glory of of the dprk.
I am a former military, senior sergeant NCO and served in my country Somalia, I oversees several Combat operations against brutal suicidal Alshabaab terrorists but when a soldiers are fallen or got injured, it matters no one except his beloved family, father and mom, Brother's and sister's, I totally resigned, quit out very fast. Simon this point you're very right, right issues that affects globally armies. Thank you very much for Bringing up attentions.
You cam from Somalia? If you don't mind me asking, are things still as bad in the country as it was back in the 2000s, with stories of how the government doesn't even control most of the capital of Mogadishu? And are you still living there right now? If so, what is the day-to-day situation like for the people there? Thanks.
@chankljp it's a good question, the government is still fragile and lack competent government officials, It control the capital city but still terrorists and independent militia's groups are operating shadowly and sometimes openly we they wants, now I'm not in Somalia, I just left few years ago, but the biggest challenge in Somalia recently is terrorists, political instability and corruptions frauds of the political elites, foreign interferences is sometimes seen, that is the reaL situation in Somalia.
Fun fact: Kim and Putin both speak German very well. So it's probable they talk with each other in German and thus also get along well on a personal level.
Maybe the real reich were the friends we made along the way .
Ever watch the deep dive on Kim on Rotten Mango? It explores his childhood and pretty much the known psychology of who that guy is. It's fascinating. Strong recommend.
Kim went to the International School of Berne in Gümligen, Switzerland under the name Chol-pak or Pak-chol.
Which in addition to English(as an international school), has French and German as additional languages.
Kim was never going to let any of the North Korean soldiers who were sent to fight Ukraine return home alive after seeing the world outside of North Korea’s borders.
Eh, these were already "the most loyal elite troops", and they now have knowledge that's priceless to the Kim regime as trainers for the rest of the army. However you don't need very many trainers, so the few that survive the meat grinder without defecting or surrendering will likely be hailed as heroes, promoted, and given a lavish position and placed in boot camps to train new soldiers in the ways of the western military combat.
@@Patson20it's the North Korean version of Squid Game.
@HeadCannonPrime yep
You really have no idea about the motivations of Kim, do you? More than anything, the North needs military experience in modern warfare, and fighting in Ukraine gives them that kind of experience. There’s no way Kim would have hoped for all those soldiers to be mowed down and not share that experience they’d have gained with the rest of his military.
@@Patson20exaclty which isn’t good, almost as if they are gaining this experience for the future they saw an opportunity to actually engage in a conflict and jumped on it. Hopefully history doesn’t repeat itself yet again!
The phrase “one of North Korea’s most elite military units” doesn’t really mean a whole lot when the Korean “People’s Army” hasn’t evolved past 1953.
And let’s be real, the Russians were always going to use them exclusively as cannon fodder, the same way they use penal battalions, foreign mercenaries, Donbas separatist militias, and ethnic minorities.
To be fair, at least the KPA of 1953 were battle-hardened, the ones who survived that is.
Even China and Russia takes part in the occasional peacekeeping operation.
As is typical in closed off totalitarian states, these troops are certainly unaware of both who they are actually fighting or the technology being deployed against them.
Imagine losing a war so bad that starving peasents are considered valid reinforcements
1/3 of ukraine is under russian control....
losing?
@@Guadalajara1937 Yes, and they are barely going ahead. Not to mention that was taken in the first few weeks if the war.
It’s like saying “4/5” of Afghanistan is under American control. Doesn’t matter, getting beaten in a battle or campaign by an inferior force is still an embarrassment.
Russia: first time?
Losing??
Not worried about the current capabilities of North Korean infantry.
Not worried about the FUTURE capabilities of North Korean infantry.
Worried that they are NOW seeking to gather "field experience"...
yes but why in the most viewed conflict world wide tho? send them to africa?
But there are a side effect, "dangerous ideas" been spread to the soldiers and I even said about Western ideas, Russian Ideas should look dangerous enough
Practical modern field experience isnt particularly common in Russia. They have been using the same tactics since start of the war. Now instead of prisoners they are using NK.
@@HeadCannonPrimeIf modern field experience doesn't exist in Russia, it exists virtually nowhere. They've been fighting this war since 2014...
@@highbread817 1000 men supporting rebels in a small portion of the country isn’t “fighting a war”
From 2015-2021
Basically nothing happened
The casualties from both sides during that period could be made up on one side in a week during the current conflict
Not at all a good point
That, and the original point was that Russian tactics aren’t worth following, experience in the field doesn’t equate to good warfare tactics/strategy
The concerning part would the the logistics they learn
Which is something Russia has improved in, cause at the start their logistics were basically nonexistent
0:45 - Chapter 1 - The situation in kursk today
1:45 - Chapter 2 - How did we get here ?
4:40 - Chapter 3 - Analysis of NK performance in kursk
7:30 - Chapter 4 - Why kim may not be bothered
11:20 - Chapter 5 - The kursk "meat grinder"
Bless you for doing the lord’s work here in the comments 💜 🤣
It's funny that Russia is willing to use foreign troops and North Korea is willing to send them but Ukraine's allies won't send troops for fear of escalation.
Feel free to volunteer.
It's more a matter of logistical and political strategy tbh. The fear of escalation is a civilian issue narrative more then an geopolitical one. Trust me, there's like thousands of generals that would just love to send troops to Ukraine to prove their worth and in the political realm everyone understands that nuclear escalation would be preferable to Russian occupation where all political elite would be assassinated anyway. Everyone in a leading position would opt to try and end it in Ukraine with conventional force or escalate to full nuclear exchange over fighting Russia in their own territory. Russia understands this as well and Putin knows there is a red line were troops would be sent to Ukraine. Hence why he initially tried to achieve his goals quickly, while the world was still in a state of shock.
What's happening now is a matter of draining the Russian war machine until it or the Russian society breaks so it Russia themselves lose the confidence in their capacity to engage in a conflicts for decades to come. And if they still felt ambitious enough to try something they would be so wounded that 1: Whoever they attack are confident enough to resits 2: Would have a good chance of defeating em. 3: Russia wouldn't take a gamble and attack a country with serious military backing.
This is the dark reality of a world with thermonuclear weapons. You have to asses the risks and preference when engaging with these states. If the choices were UK/France/US occupation or nuclear war, people would chose occupation. Because Russia conducts itself the way it does, it would simply mean torture, rape, murder, terror and fear on it's population and then they would just use what's left as meat shields to attack the next country, at that point what's the point of conceding? Then you might as well just escalate the conflict to where Russia themselves become so frightened that they will have to will escalate to nuclear war and pull back, or just actually escalate it to nuclear war. Being vaporized is preferable to occupation.
Many foreign troops have been killed in Ukraine, they just call them volunteers. They also don't report on the mercenaries. The EU and the US has also been giving Ukraine weapons systems that have to be maintained and programmed by foreign troops, so they are there. If you only listen to propaganda from the west, you are going to be seriously ignorant of what is going on over there. India news is a little better, and there are some independent reporters from both the Ukraine and the Russian sides who line up pretty close in their reporting of the situation.
Westerners will not go down fighting.
@ FAFO
I feel so sorry for those north Korean soldiers. They're already in such a horrific situation at home and now they're forced into a meat grinder.
And their world view is so tightly controlled that they really don't know any other reality.
the Ukrainians in Kursk is not the first incursion into Russian territory since WWII. During the Chechen wars, Chechen forces staged some incursions into Russian controlled autonomous republics in the Caucasus.
Watching so much battle footage from Ukraine, Im learning a new language through curse words.
It was ever thus. Once you've got the swearing down, you can usually get by in any language with less than 20 words...
North Korea has also engaged in combat since the end of the Korean armistice in 1953. North Korea had boots on the ground and even combat aircraft on the northern side during the Vietnam war.
Quantity has a quality all its own… Even if they are malnourished, the NK soldiers can fight as long as they can hold a rifle.
Imagine being teleported to a futuristic dystopian hell hole of a war zone, being set to die. They’re not even toy soldiers, just biological units, of the lowest form. Malnourished, unable to speak, fighting faceless enemies, for no reason that they’re privy to. These guys are living ‘Come and See’ by the thousands. It’s insane how lucky I am. If there is a god, may he have mercy on their souls.
0:31 Wait, they're bringing Blood to the Blood God over in Kursk?
I love how Kim Jong Jelly Rolls can't even stand up for the rifle display... 😂😂😂
I recall seeing a video of a drone operator flying in a way that made a north korean troop shoot his collegue. Whether real or fake, mere thought of this situation possibly being real was scary
They're getting combat experience, I mean, the ones whose survive. Time to call the Tiger Forces
It's probably a lot easier said than done, but there has to be a temptation for these North Korean troops to just say "Fuck It" and make a break for freedom or even intentionally getting captured by Ukrainian forces just so they don't have to go back to North Korea?
You forget that their families would be punished for such transgressions. Hard to run when your parents siblings and children are held hostage
Not likely. In the North Korean military, soldiers are conditioned to kill themselves to avoid capture. This is because in North Korea, surrender or capture is seen as equivalent to treason. As such, to avoid dishonor (and retribution against their families), they think it’s better to die even by their own hand than to be captured.
@@jamesleggett9644 Indeed. In fact, Ukraine has been recommended to not publicize NK PoW names or images so that their families can't be punished for their capture.
Its also the same as to why so few people leave NK, and that many only attempt it if they can get their family out as well. A few years ago, Kim decreed that diplomatic staff had to leave their family behind in NK exactly because of them defecting
My heart goes out to those North Korean soldiers. They already face immense challenges in their daily lives, and now they're subjected to even greater hardships. It's heartbreaking to think about how deeply they are influenced, leaving them unaware of any other reality.
0:32 - Khorne Group, eh? Warhammer 40k wheedles its way into everything.
no no they are just really into korn flakes
9:48 sorry if this a dumb question but why are the tips of those missiles blurred out?
Tuva? Somewhere in the ether, Richard Feynman's ears perked up
Sad to say I had never heard of Tuva until I played a video game. I remeber pausing and going to google like "wth is this place?"
This is jarring & I can’t imagine not being told your in a war zone & finding out the hard way
I suspect that most of those North Korean's were never going home. They've been exposed to too much 'wealth and freedom', even in Russia. It would become a problem for the leadership back home. Those boys were sent on a one-way trip.
Remember, the NK troops basically showed up with no training, no situational awareness, not even a competent core of translators. I would expect going forward to see improvement both as they learn to use modern equipment like FPVs, and are able to fully coordinate thier own actions with a trained Korean speaking officer corps.
Russia was unable to make gains for almost 2 years, even losing large amounts of ground. Now, they understand effective tactics, and are grinding forward. The North Korean learning curve will be much faster.
Gotta remember though that unlike Russian soldiers the Koreans are ideologically brainwashed and not allowed to adopt "western ideas" without being Labelled traitors
5:00 Sniper is taking aim at Simon's left eye.
Is there a term for distillation of a military force? If you have a too large, inexperienced military, you send groups off, rotate back whoever survives and use there experience to seed / harden the rest of the units.
Where is South Korea in all this?
So it’s ok for Russia to recruit foreign troops but NATO can’t sent soldiers to Ukraine?
Sending frontline troops is a big thing. Plus, it’s got more to do with the publicity, European governments don’t like to talk about the NATO technicians, trainers and other personnel in Ukraine.
No it's not ok for Russia to do ANY of this. But we live in a world where laws are mutable and have little consequences unless you are one of the poor.
@@HeadCannonPrime as a french we know we have a lot of troops in ukraine too, i think its a common thing to use mercenary or foreign troops from yours allies to help ( our foreign legion ) and if im not mistaken they have sign a defensive alliance sooo declaring war to russia is declaring war to NK
@generaltom6850 " NATO technicians, trainers and other personnel in Ukraine." literal conspiracy theory. NATO isn't sending anyone.
Volunteer then, you're so keen to get involved 😅
Even if NK lost all 15k troops it's only 1.15 percent their entire force. When's the last time you cried over losing a single penny of a dollar.
These are lives we’re talking about. Don’t forget
@kwhizzorkizz4605 Oh trust me man, I haven't, but I can't imagine a leader willing to sacrifice his followers could have any other sort of sentiment towards doing so. The minds of madness.
The tips of those missiles were censored...
Its literally on video... North Koreans pulling the pin and holding the grenade to their face
Really trying to care, but alas, I cannot. Other than enjoying the spectacle of incompetence, of course...🍿
N.Korean troops fighting gamers flying drones whos always had snacks is a hilarious turn of after they spent all this time since the 50s training to fight a standing military XD
An error, so to speak, in this analysis. NK soldiers are seen as inactive economic units that just drain resources training. In reality, the NK army soldiers probably do more farming than training, so its not like Kim can just send brigade after brigade to the slaughterhouse and expect things to get better
I can imagine north korean soldiers can be converted with things like mcdonalds and a phone with unlimited internet
These guys should be in the Octagon in the UFC fighting not in Ukraine fighting.
This is a wake up call to the whole world. The status quo is broken. Feared and once thought powerful armies are being shown as incompetent, corrupt, lacking in experience or a mix of all three. The same is probably true for most of the world that has not seen conflict in the last 50 years. Training and reputation can only take you so far. And many Nato nations have not fought in decades, this should bring concern to Nato that these allies are likely to under preform in a near peer conflict.
On the flip side its almost certain that the issues that plagued Russia early in the war and that plague NK will also plague China should they enter conflict. It is unlikely that much reform was actually done to its military since 2022, despite what they claim and that corruption runs rampant in their military. Like wise while they show ferocity and have massive numbers of soldiers the actual combat experience they have in near peer conflicts in the modern age is 0.
If you need North Korean forces and still can’t achieve you objective it not only shows that you are beyond desperate and doomed but also no superpower.
Woah 10 mins ago, earliest I’ve ever been
Be careful Simon. I noticed you in the snipers crosshairs multiple times during this video 😧
Next time someone says, "my life has no meaning". Just mention the reality of these NK soldiers in Ukraine. Their lives have less of a meaning....
Imagine how hard they'd fight for freedom if they were made to believe that the rest of the world believe their lives matter as much as their own. I've watched videos of NK's that have managed to defect be absolutely floored by how kind Americans treat them, especially the soldiers. I saw a video on Dimple where soldiers sent a care package, and the ex-NK started sobbing. They sent him snacks, a t-shirt and toy soldiers. Hell, it may have been his very first toy EVER. Americans LOVE freedom to the point where it's a joke, so I think it's easy for them to sympathize.
It will take generations to undo the damage; I want these people to be rescued so bad.
North Koreans soldiers may well have thought they would be fed properly every day, and all you have to do is join the second most powerful army in the world.
Can't help but wonder, and it sounds a bit cold, but captured North Koreans have to be interrogated to understand the mindset.
I’d be interested to know what the NK SF guys are up to…
Well... most of their actions involve offing themselves, so probably that
Simon & Crew - Something I believe you've missed, is that as far as the Kim Regime are concerned, all of the soldiers they sent are already dead. Sure, they would like the Generals & Staff Officers back, but the boots-on-ground guys? D.E.A.D.
Moreover, as far as the Kim Regime is concerned, they've been dead since the moment they crossed the border out of the DPRK. NONE of them are EVER going home - too much of a risk to the Regime. They've seen too much Russian Decadence(!) to ever be trusted again. They've been exposed to luxuries like meats that aren't dog, indoor plumbing, and Internet Porn.
No. Kim and his cronies can't afford to let those guys back into the DPRK. They would pose too much of a risk just for having seen what is available OUTSIDE the DPRK. There would be far too much risk of them saying something that could destabilize the Regime...
So, yeah. Those DPRK troops are never going home again, no matter what. They'll either die on the battlefield, die while "being cared for" in Russian Military Hospitals, disappear into Russia as new citizens, or surrender/be captured by Ukraine. None of them will ever go home again...
8:49 you forgot the technology advancement they would receive also, look at the submarine they just built
Did they censor the TIP of the missile LOL
The Dildo of Consequences my friend.
Ukrainian mercenaries from Columbia the same quality as those NK troops.
The Columbian are there at small number compared to NK troops.
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What common languages do Kim and Putin communicate in?
Since the soldiers sent to Ukraine have been exposed to western technology (such as the internet) and actual food, I highly doubt that Kim is going to allow any of those North Korean soldiers to return. The combat experience they will learn in Ukraine will not be enough to compromise the risk of having these soldiers to return with the knowledge they learned about the outside world.
I disagree with you, Simon. Kim is not going to have these soldiers return just because they have combat experience in a modern war. Their knowledge of what the west offers to the people is too dangerous to allow have spread across their military in North Korea.
Dude, that’s not even close to how you pronounce “Hanuel”. Korean pronunciation actually isn’t that hard for English-speakers.
For all the people dunking on the North Korean military - sure, but don’t get cocky. North Korea has a long history of fairly competent ground forces. I’m sure they’re under-equipped, and the NKPA hasn’t seen combat in a while, and they don’t call it the hermit kingdom for nothing, so who knows for sure. But I wouldn’t assume the NKPA isn’t hardy and resourceful and resilient and probably overall significantly more effective than many of the undertrained Russian units that Putin considers expendable. Maybe they aren’t! But it would be wise not to underestimate their infantry.
NK Condor Legion confirmed.
What’s your source that the Tuvan was really a North Korean?
Something about him speaking neither Tuvan nor Russian and suspiciously speaking perfect Korean
@ interesting. Because the only footage released by Ukraine of these individuals had no audio so there’s no evidence proving what language they speak. They certainly look more Tuvan or Mongol than Korean to anyone with the first clue of biometrics
All of theses channels have no actual proof of there being north koreans. If they site sources its the kiev independent or CNN.
There actually was audio. You Just failed to find it@@RhysCampbell01
Source is trust me bro
20k a month coming in and 1k a day or 30k a month leaving yet the Russian army is growing every month. The math isn’t mathing
3:34 Am I the only one who finds the watermark 'Khorne Group' distinctly disturbing? And wonders wth was inspired by warhammer to use this in real world war footage?
That's the name of the Ukrainian army unit that recorded the footages, and that's their chosen emblem
Slavs love Warhammer. It is massive in Eastern Europe. The Russians were literally making 40k style purity seals to wear on their armor like Space Marines. Just with Christian prayers instead...
I mean there's troops on both sides rocking purity seals, Aguila's and all kinds of other 40k iconography. Nerds are gonna be nerds, even on the battlefield. A lot of the people I've encountered in the hobby are ex military. Hell my one buddies dad has stories of them playing D&D back during Desert storm in whatever random space they could find and use.
Weird how every day people are the one sent to war. Normal people can enjoy warhammer
@@9mm_Retirement Yeah, there is also a somewhat famous photo floating around Warhammer forums of some coalition tankers playing 40k during Desert Storm using rocks for models, a dip-stick from a T-72 as a measuring stick, and a copy of White Dwarf for the rules. 40k is definitely pretty popular in the military community. Most of the guys I play with are either current, reserve, or former military.
Closer to 400 km not 800
WW2 tactics with vietnam war era equipment and modern day fragments of tech
You mean Putin's body double visited North Korea, right?
A lot of bots out today
Every time Ukraine vs. Russia is bought up, every video. The number of "people" that have never been anywhere near a war, the military or Eastern Europe that are suddenly scholars on the issue with strong opinions is amazing.
Hitler during ww2 sent his army to help spain, by testing a modern army. This is not a duplication....😂
Why do keep hearing about how Ukraine is winning but like they’re not winning?
Shut up. Why is the mighty Russian bear superpower still struggling to win? Huh?
too much philosophy, it NK duty to send troops to Kursk region, as per their agreement, if anyone attacks Rus or NK territory, other must help and participate, end, thats the point of mutual protection deals, it's like their NATO
So I guess we just decided to give the Cold War another go ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
English is so weird. Still can't understand why "korps" sounds exactly like "core"... why?
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They are getting battle hardened meaning SK is screwed.
Russia always seems to be on the brink of collapse according to Warographics but I’ve never heard a single negative think about Ukraine 🤔
kursk was a failed opp stop milking it🤣
Zelensky told you that 😂
We can all see the mighty Russian bear superpower is still struggling.
UK troops are failing in Kursk. But that may not matter.
Wrong side of the world mate. The UK doesn't even have enough troops to fill it's army, they're not gonna send any troops to the frontlines
There’s plenty of nato troops fighting in Ukraine
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Less for South Korea to worry about!
Yeah it doesn’t matter when it actually signal to the world that you can send troops to Ukraine. Both France and Britian has done this
Volunteers not any official state armies.
😂 you're making their life worthless 😮
Can you speak to us like you would in a normal conversation? Whatever this accent is distracting. You do it on other videos but really leaned into it
On this one
Is there concrete proof of DPRK soldiers fighting in Russia? I still haven't seen any concrete proof on this.
There’s plenty of material online. It’s everything but confirmed by NK.
there is the guy with the broken jaw who can't speak , thats got to count for something lol
What is not concrete proof? They have POWs, they have pictures they have drone footage. What the F more do you need?
@ dna samples , birth certs and high school reunion photos
Of course it doesnt matter. Ukraine is the one actually failing
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I would watch you if you didn't speak so fast there's no need for it
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Whatever Simon.
Hahahaha. Nice propaganda. Nk troops are failing which is why the ukrainians have been pretty much kicked out of kursk completely.
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Can you provide sorce? Or its like your Kuran and you made it up.
Remember Gaza where was allah? 😂
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@@yendevus1747 Bruh h4ezbollah khamas chechen push youuu
Mark Normand and Heidi Gardner aren't funny
Oh man can't wait for a completely unbiased video from the NATO bootlicker lmao.
That's great, now give me a recipe for lemon pie
This is honestly one of the more generous takes ive heard on the NK soldiers, take your whining elsewhere