North Korean troops could be sent to Ukraine’s frontline in Putin - Kim deal | Frontline
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- Sung Yoon Lee, a previous advisor to US administrations on North Korea has told Times Radio’s Frontline that Kim Jong Un could send troops to Ukraine disguised as medics.
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Imagine north korean troops would have a culture shock after getting out of their country for the first time.
They'd get to see food for the first time!
Untested North Korean conscrips being forced into battle against a hardened and experienced Ukrainians.
Maybe they are smart and just escape..😂
Achieving their multi generations dream to die a week later by a Ukrainian troop.
Run to Ukraine troops and kiss them 😅
I am pretty sure you could defeat the entire North Korean military with a case of Snickers bars.
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And Mars bar
Or just one more Waffer thin Mint........
ummm why didt they in the 60's then? just a thought
@@tonybuk70 They _were_ defeated by the Americans. _That's why South Koreans are wealthy, and North Koreans live like russians._
WOW what a brilliant and well informed person Sung Yoon Lee is…well done Kate for your smart interviewing. Keep up the great work! 🚢🇬🇧
Congratulations on your thoroughly generic comment.
@@CandideSchmylesdo you like being offensive and rude! Who do you think you are 😂
@@madeinyorkshire52 only to mow rons that deserve it.
North Korea and Russians fighting side by side, ya right. Putin is the best comedian ever.
_With the help of these malnourished North Korean heroes, we will now take Kyiv in three DAYS!"_ 😂😂😂
Assad sent maybe twenty soldiers to fight in Ukraine and quickly withdrew them. If NK sends troops the RU will treat them badly.
@@eddiemertin3381 Korean Fodder
Read a history book. North Korea and Russia have fought together before.
@@GregBrownsWorldORacing you must be joking.
another leader who treats his people as cannon fodder.
Stop playing around, give Ukraine the the tools to deal with this foolishness they are fighting well and seem willing to do the work and make the sacrifices to get a good result. Slava Ukraine ✊
Hear hear
Hear hear..
HERE HERE
I agree 1,000,000%
agree
Russians text “I want to live.”
North Koreans text “I want to eat.”
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They will defect in droves. Just offer them a free cell phone.
Or a bowl of food lol
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They will not, as their families back in North Korea would have to suffer for this.
@@juliarichter6987 Couldn't be any worse that what they're already suffering
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A unit of bewildered, mal-nourished, disengaged North Korean soldiers will do Russia more harm than good. I expect they would defect asap, except for the fact Kim will have threatened their families back home. A terrible situation for them.
Don’t forget parasite-infested.
And thrown into human wave attacks. As I don't think command and control of troops who know no Russian and have never met a foreigner in their life will be particularly well coordinated.
I don't think north Koreans are as eager to defect as the few defectors make it seem. As the guest says, we patronize and underestimate North Korea. They are capable, if desperate.
They are supposed to clear a path through the mine field
They will be dead men walking.@@Vaixell_Roig
Well, kim's troops know how to do synchronized stepping. So there's that. 😂😂😂😂😂
And looking side ways who can beat that
Well, if they get captured, they finally get a meal. Probably their last, as Kim is not big on letting North Koreans live to spread the word upon returning
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So, Cannon fodder? I can't imagine they would be very good troops
Didn't they lose to Vietnam once??????
Their training psyche/regime will be similar to that used by China, in that the training and drills are structured to impress their senior Officers, rather than to instill tactical thinking, teamwork and effective battlefield decisions....
Does Kim really think it's a good idea to ship Korean soldiers out to fight a country that will happily offer to help them escape North Korea?
Their families would be killed if they tried. Although they will experience culture shock and then death at the hands of the Ukrainians.
Then when they don’t come back their family is hurt
This guest is a genius. This is an absolute must watch on North Korea. Enjoy and watch again. Packed with great information!
She started laughing , because she cant take North Korea and Ruzzia seriously .😁👍
Does anybody take north Korea or russia seriously nowadays?!
Mostly because she never has to be worried about fighting a war.
A fascinating interview. Thank you.
An unexpected and interesting guest, thanks Kate 👍🇺🇦
I want them to have putin on and have him repeat his "Kyiv in 3 days" schtick 🤭 Then russia will assume full clown status in front of the world lol
Great interviewee - lucid, witty and informed!
And he takes a neutral tone that supplements all these strengths.
Superb interview. That chap is brilliant. I could listen to him for ages. He talks a lot of sense. Clear, straightforward and insiteful.
I'm still laughing about putin screaming the whole "Kyiv in 3 days" thing lol
@@dpelpalI think you’re a fish without batter 😂😂😂
Oh, I'm sure the RuZZians have much better advisors🐻🤕🤡🙈
Best insight about North Korea I have ever heard or read. If the US isn't listening to him, its our loss.
Another superb interview - I've learnt so much. about a subject I had so little knowledge. Really terrific. Thank you. Jane Soole, Dorset, England
Greetings to England from Finland 👍
Blessings, peace and luck from California to Ukraine 🙏🙏✌🍀💙💛
The trouble with North Korea,there troops have no experience on the battlefield. It really won’t matter how many troops they send,the out come will be the same. Very unfortunate again it will be unnecessary loss of life.
Excellent interview and analysis. Thanks
That man is a great speaker, great communicator.
as far as I'm aware NK hasn't had any military experience in warfare so if this is the fact they will be just more cannon fodder...but Ukraine will need much more armaments...to deal with it...
У северных корейцев железная дисциплина и боевая устойчивость в отличии от изнеженных европейских и американских пидоров.
This man is erudite and fascinating and 😮I have never heard of him.
Russia has a world class Navy as well.. Take for example they lost a submarine to Ukraine the other night, but they also lost 5 vessels.......that are now submarines.......so they actually net gained 4 submarines. Pooty is a great strategist.
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That's the rub. Putin has no military experience whatsoever, yet is now making the military decisions a very high ranking Army Officer might make....
Imagine a sworn translator behind each North Korean soldier to transmit the order of the Russian commander !
They'd only need to learn one word in russian anyway... _Retreat!_
@@dpelpal 🤣😂👌
@@dpelpal The sick, sad truth is that the only word they would be told is "advance." Russian *citizens* were treated like vermin and meat for the grinder. What do you think they will do with *foreigners?*
Sick and sad indeed.
And take notes.
and what commander? a 16 yr old cadet?
Best inteview heard in a very long time! Super informative.
Thank you for this excellent interview. Sung Yoon Lee is so well informed. Kate brilliant as ever.
I’ll say it again I really love and appreciate Times Radio’s experts and content.
Yeah they have a collective IQ in double digits.
I got a good laugh. So, it was worth it.
@@j7j7j7j7x Similar to watching the russian army perform. Always good for a laugh🤣
You haven't seen all the interviews then. Some are absolutely shocking lol the teenager in a maintenance room always makes me laugh.
@@dpelpal And yet they still hold 23% of Ukraine .... funny that !
This was an excellent interview and an extremely knowledgeable introduction to North Korea and their modus operandi.
I love this guy. Please bring him on more often
Will the North Koreans arrive by train? And they have been promised comfort, by the way .😊
Every day for consultation😅
Starving soldiers , they Will last 3 weeks like that...
i love this guy, he is absolutely brilliant! If I had a tenth of his ability I would be a happy man.
World: We can't laugh any harder at the russian army lol
North Korea: _Enters the chat._
To make things even more hilarious, Russian media is now reporting Ramzan Kadyrov to be in a coma🤫
2-outcast powers are contracted by orphaned offspring as a result of marriage
@@finlandveteran4409 One has to wonder if the russian military realizes it's the world's joke at this point lol
"Looks like meat's back on the menu boys!!!" ~ The Two Towers
North Korea: Ok soldiers, get ready, you're going to fight for russia
Soldiers: _Will there be food?!_
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@@dpelpal "Sure...right after your family receives your military check in the mail from the Kremlin." ;)
Putin needs dealt with and I mean dealt with.
bring them on more fodder
Okay, as a German, I feel, that I have to comment on the remark that "the richer state absorbed the poorer one", stating that, yes - that might be one way to look at it - but the initiative here came from the people of the DDR in East Germany. The revolution started in there, within the hearts and minds of the people of East Germany. They started tearing down the wall, because they couldn't bear the hardship inside that state anymore (and we welcomed our brethren here). Just for clarity's sake.
Nobody wants to live anywhere associated with russia lol
Still created a lingering resentment in East Germany
@@Aan_allein Sure. Created some lingering resentment in West Germany as well. Nobody said, that it's going to be easy. Nor did anybody claim, that one can remedy misconceptions and exaggerated and misguided expectations (on both sides) in a lifetime - nor could we foresee the future. Rest assured - a lot of people here are not happy, that our state officials and economy leaders sacrificed our relatively stable social-market economy from the old BRD-era, just to adapt total capitalism (which only works for a few rich sods).
Upon Lee is very good, you should bringing him more often
One of the best interviews I’ve heard on N. Korea. Very balanced.
There is a virtually zero chance this happens.
I think your right NK far to paranoid about the US South Korea and Japan to commit large amounts of troops anywhere else
Just nod and smile, they have all completely lost their minds, recent figures out claim Ukraine has an army of 1 million, Russia has lost 500,000 men, which means Ukraine hasn't had a single casualty in 2 years, just slowly back out the door as quietly as possible.
@Sigmaputin2028 You're the only russian bot that admits putin screamed his "Kyiv in 3 days" lol. You should get a medal for honesty
I agree zero percent that North Korean troops show up. This podcast is more of a diversion and side show.
Kim is well aware that his army are just for show.
They’re that desperate and the Russian army that depleted that they now need North Korean troops? Lol
Putin wants an overwhelming force is what it is. He apparently doesn't have that now. But what he really wants and needs, more than anything, is weapons from North Korea
Very informative..thank you😊
Thankyou Sung Yoon Lee and Kate @Times Radio for the brief history and your comments.
I can't believe a society can tolerate this level of casualties, and still be okay with it. How can they not know? The apathy is astonishing.
Russia truly is getting slaughtered.
Most of the conscripts are from the poorer east. The east of Russia doesn't matter a damn to the average russian from the western regions.
It’s the Russian serf mentality. They live their dictators without question
The canon fodder mostly consists of non-ethnic Russians, the poor & rural Russians. Moscow & St. Petersburg haven’t suffered much yet.
@@grahamstrouse1165 not yet , but they will
No need to tell the English how dangerous the Japanese military can be, our grandfathers told us all about their prison camps.
The Japanese military are not involved in this conflict, and nor are they likely to be. But yes, I'd sooner have Japan as an ally than a foe. And thankfully, that is how it is today. Japan has few enemies these days, but many allies.
Excellent interview. Very informative and a great interviewer❤
Marvellous speaker. More, please! So clear and informative. Thank you.
What an enjoyable and highly informative interview. All respect for Sung Yoon Lee, his knowledge, insight and flawless English! Thanks to Kate and Times Radio as well, of course.
Boy is this guy informative, what a fantastic interview. Thanks for the insights
Thanks, extremely informative!
Excellent interview extremely educational and eye opening thank you Sung Yoon Lee, Kate and Times Radio.
NOTE TO EDITOR - there is a small piece of error footage that was left in and presumably to be removed? .. 0:43 to 0:53 :)
This is a very smart man who knows history, in depth, but I am afraid that he knows more about the Korean War than the war in Ukraine. There is the outside chance that Kim would get rid of North Korean criminals. Yes Russia has been reduced to asking weird people or countries for help. We don’t underestimate North Korea.
October 1950 has been on my mind this whole time. This is the first on UA-cam I've seen talking about it.
Good Questions, Great insightful and articulated answers, and Amazing Interview. Thanks again Kate 👍
North korea has the most hungry army in the world 😂
Russia has the most ridiculous drunken papmaché army in the world 😂
So is the russain army putin won't feed them .
Get those long range weapons to Ukraine so they can win this war. If Ukraine never gave up their nukes in the Budapest Agreement none of this would be happening.
this is a sad thing for Ukrainians, but old nuclear weapons are very dangerous, no one has taken care of aging weapons, I am waiting for that day, obsolete nuclear weapons will go off by themselves, this is a fact. functional USA constantly maintains nuclear weapons, it costs millions of dollars to maintain
Тогда Россия уничтожит вас ублюдки западные, за поддержку. Думаете мы на вас реликтов смотреть будем?
A very insightful and useful interview. Thank you.
Excellent insights. Thank you.
Very, very well explained and interesting interview. Impressed with Sung Yoon Lee. (Hope the name is correct)
As a fluent Korean speaker who lived in South Korea for twenty years, I found this a fascinating and insightful interview, as one comes to expect from Ms Gerbeau.
Professor Sung Yoon Lee definitely has an accurate perception of the issues surrounding the North Korea question and I wholeheartedly agree with his analysis (and his suggestions for dealing with North Korea, published elsewhere).
The only point with which I would have a possible disagreement would be on the degree to which North Korea might be impacted by the replacement of Putin as leader of Russia. Of course, Professor Lee wasn't directly asked to imagine regime change of any kind, let alone one in which Russia became a western leaning democracy, but, should it happen, North Korea and China would essentially be isolated as the only major pariahs on the global stage.
If Russia were to become a true democracy, China would in fact be highly susceptible to pressure from the West: Measures such as desourcing plus sanctions, could in fact bring down a Chinese regime that no longer had a resource rich neighbouring ally.
At this point, North Korea in turn would become an unsustainable state, as it relies heavily on Chinese support for its existence. Under these conditions it is possible to imagine the collapse of the North Korean state.
These are, of course, highly hypothetical, even fanciful conjectures but, for me, this route remains on of the few ways in which I can imagine an end to North Korea as a state.
In this sense, I'm sure at least that North Korea would be extremely worried by and possibly impacted by a regime change in Russia.
At any rate, an excellent interview from Professor Lee.
Above all, though, it should be said, yet again, that Ms Gerbeau is by far the most talented interviewer on politics on UA-cam. She demonstrates a clear ability to listen to and understand her interviewee's comments and perspectives through the intelligent questions that she asks in return to any interviewee's responses. Given her obvious talent and equally evident popularity, it boggles the mind why she isn't covering a broader range of topics on prime time mainstream TV.
Producers, take note!!
Magnificent commemts.
Kate’s also very easy to look at.
Am not sure what professor is trying to say.
@@davidgreen449 she is. All the more reason she should be hired by mainstream TV, although, I'd suffer as a result: I never watch it anymore 😅
@@harmonsalmon7739 Professor Lee is a specialist on the subject of North Korea and how it should be handled. His main point is that the North Korean leadership is out-smarting both his enemies (US) and his allies (China/ Russia) and that they have more or less got their way since 1953. In other works, not in this video, he suggests a two point strategy of 1) containing the regime with strict sanctions with few exceptions and 2) interactions with the grass roots population through mass communication that aims to show the population the degree to which they are being lied to and that food and medical aid should be given to help underline the benevolent aims of South Korea, the US and their allies.
In this video, other than explaining that the North Korean regime isn't crazy in the casual sense and is in fact highly intelligent, as evidenced by their ability successfully to play all sides to get what it wants, Prof Lee is suggesting that, more than just military hardware as most commentators have focused on, North Korea has most likely offered military personnel to go to the Ukraine region. (Incidentally, this mirrors a Vietnam era deal by the US - South Korea at the time, whereby South Korea sent combat troops in exchange for military technology supplied by the US). He states that these troops will likely be sent in the guise of being medical or other supporting units (I.e. not fighting troops) whereas they will in fact be combat troops. (Other countries have regularly done the same with special forces troops). Professor Lee is basically saying watch this space and don't underestimate what is happening.
Fantastic insite. Thank you both so much.
Brilliant! Thank you both!
Thanks for letting Mr. Sung Yoon Lee talk without interrupting, very interesting.
She is a top notch interviewer. Asks intelligent questions and lets her guest talk.
Absolutely fascinating man with insights to consider.
Do they think if they sent North Korean soldiers to Ukraine that they're going to fight? They're going to run away because they're finally out of that damn country 😂
This guy was actually a fantastic guest. Super informative.
If i was in NK military i would volunteer then Surender soon as i get to ukraine
In which language will the Russians and the Koreans communicate?
Greek.
_Defeat._
@@dpelpal Amen.
Ukrainian, in their POW camps.
bullsh*t and trench foot.
Excellent commentary!
Another excellent interview
If that happens, they can be beaten pretty quickly. Just drop food on them and they'll be too busy eating than defending themselves
Russia should be discharged from the UN Security Council for this agreement with DPRK. And at what point; does UN provide armed manpower or engineers etc to counter the additional troops supplied by DPRK. Russia is escalating the conflict not Ukraine but can the world stand by without countering the RU-DPRK involvement?
Yes. Surprised that this isn't a more mainstream proposition 👍
NATO troops? You mean US soldiers? You have kids? Send them.
@@nobodynever7884 newsflash: US is part of NATO.
Very insightful. Thank you
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂as canon folders😂😂😂😂North Korean man would not survive a day in Bakhmut😂
The brave and fully trained ukraines against a despot army off North koreans .
Give me bloody strength 😂😂😂
My sides are splitting bring it on
Kim 😂😅😅😅
Fully trained leftovers of an annihilated army and recalled refugees against an army with 4 years mandatory service
Being great military power on paper and in reality is a very different question. We already watching a pathetic experience of second army in the world 😂
I'm cool with 4,000 North Koreans fighting in Ukraine
if it is balanced off with 1,000 NATO pilots and their planes
and their ground crews fighing in Ukraine
alongside Ukrainian forces.
We need to put this issue to bed.
Sung Yoon Lee gives a brilliant interview that makes the North Korean position easy to understand beginning with its history up to the present day. very insightful, thank you.
Nato need to step up to the line right now and tell Putin that if he accepts the help of North Korean troops fighting alongside Russia. Then Nato need to say we are going to fight alongside Ukraine if asked.
Russia choosing to involve North Korea directly, using NK troops in Ukraine, would be a blatant breach of UN resolutions.....
Great content!
Very good interview Kate. You are excellent.❤
Excellent command of historical details and present geo-politics assessments. Articulate, interesting, almost captivating.
Kate is one of the smartest, and best interviewers of our time. She has prepared, insightful questions, but can pivot on a dime to ask a brilliant follow-up question to an unexpected answer. Keep up the great work!
Yeah, she really had to be on her toes for Sung Yoon Lee, but she never missed a beat. Great follow ups and never giggled at Dear Leader, no matter how tempting.
Completely agree. Doesn't matter whom she interviews - always shows her understanding with the follow up questions. Better than most mainstream presenters by such a long way!
She is really good absolutely
Great interview
highly informative presented
Kim is saying, "This seems like a good way for me to have less people to feed."
In reality, North Korean personnel would probably surrender en masse if they got anywhere near the front.
not at all. you very much underestimate how much brainwashing has gone down....for generations.
What do they think would happen to their relatives back in North Korea if they do? Very few russian soldiers have defected and risk getting shot by their own if they disobey orders. That could happen to North Korean soldiers too.
@@hakanpetersson2662 - not everyone has family and there is high demand for a way out of North Korea and extremely tight controls on leaving North Korea because of such.
@@Texas240 but most soldiers do, so I imagine it would be very difficult to coordinate both defections in Ukraine and flight out of North Korea simultaneously on a grand scale.
Indeed. These NK troops would be seeing the outside World for the *first* time..... It would also be the first time they had experienced genuine full-on combat. Both those things will be difficult to deal with if you are from NK.
Can you imagine the state of any artillery shells North Korea supplies Russia? Some of them are going to be 60+ years old....
North Korea selling back the same shells the USSR sold them decades ago. At a tidy profit I’m sure.
…And North Korea hoping to trade them for a 🇷🇺. submarine …..💙💛💙
@@mike4480 They will be getting one..they just need to repair it first.
North Korean prisoners of war would doom dictator Kim.
Korea needs democracy and uniformity in peace.
The downside to Russia (and the DPRK) of a tightening alliance is that it would give South Korea a helluva lot of incentive to provide direct aid to Ukraine. And South Korea is the world’s leading producer of advanced artillery systems & 155 mm ammo.
Given that no NK troops speak either russian or English fluently this would further complicate their operations, given that Russias front is already seriously compromised due to lack of organisation, cooperation and disasterous logistics, I cant imagine what another 500k NK rookies who have never actually fought a war or even have up-to-date equipment will make. Putin would be better off sending 12-year olds to the front. .....(oh. hes doing that already).
I guess they will use this to get out of NK by surrendering asap. These troops have no battle experience, they will suffer isolation by language and have no enthusiasm for the terrible conditions they will suffer.
@@jackmacfakie1387 Then they know enough to know that the russian army is nothing more than a joke at this point lol
@@jackmacfakie1387 thats the most naive thing ive heard this century
It’s impossible to command a massive amount of soldiers who don’t understand the language and the reasoning of the war. Seems like a daft idea but they already made plenty of them 😂
what an amazing guest. A mine of information
Impressive. learned a lot...very interesting...
What a brilliant commentator. Funny and witty while giving an outstanding presentation. And the interviewer is exceptional. A class act. Really knows her subject.
Ukraine just sunk another russian ship. The _Samum._ 🤣
"Kyiv in 3 DAYS!"