They resemble each other in that they are (or were in the soviet's case) built around fending off a massive invasion. The DPRK has artillery bunkers, the soviets had tank bunkers, etc...
@@yoloman3607 No, it was built to grind the enemy down during their initial offensive, then immediately counter attack, and as soon the advance slowed, dig in and repeat. There was no belief that NATO forces when dug in could be displaced by the red army with any reasonable level of success. They planned on crushing NATO offensives, then quickly advancing before NATO forces could reorganize.
@@92HazelMocha ????? Their entire doctrine is called the "deep strike" doctrine and their battle drills are built to mass firepower and obliterate defensive positions with "overwhelming shock". Almost all NATO predictions ended at least a partial Soviet victory in a conventional war leveraging their massive ground armies to sweep away NATO defense positions.
The one thing I see rarely mentioned is the DPRK's incredibly sized chemical and biological weapon stockpiles. I would think they are more of a threat than their nuclear weapons stockpile due to abundance of both quantity and delivery systems. And I would hazard to guess that would be the grouping of weaapons theey would turn to before finally going nuclear in the event of a conflict going poorly. Due to that always being an ever present possibility and detterent I am certain this is one of the main reasons they are so comfortable trading massive amounts of standard artillery and missiles to Russia.
chemical and biological weapons are mostly terror weapons - they're not better at causing casualties compared to conventional munitions or incendiaries but they cause much more suffering. there's exceptions like wuhan-chan but the strength of that was really that people didn't know that they were sick and spread it everywhere. for DPRK where they have closed borders to everyone, biological weapons aren't really a major issue.
Chemical and biological weapons are generally not very effective against a prepared military foe. They’re great against civilians (so they’d probably be extremely effective against, say, Seoul) but use against military targets is usually not worth it.
@@Michael-wo6ld There's certain types of chemical and biological weapons which don't give a damn about preparations (higher end nerve agents that can eat away at filters quite rapidly, weaponized Anthrax, etc). This and South Korea's legendary level of corruption (even in the military) can mean preparedness for such a NBC hit could be much lower than expected.
Hmmm ok , they are Hidden , but maybe you could Spot hints Things that are suspicious like relative good roads in an abondoned area for supplies, or something like this 😅 @@grobbs666
The thing that fascinates me most about the DPRK and what we don't get to see enough of is what do their small arms look like and how do their fighters look when they fly, the skill level of their pilots etc.
oh you just have to look deeper, they have quite a lot of equipment, all of it is self made by this point, enough footage of the factories they were built at too, they can produce over 20 heavy missile artillery systems in just a few months which is a gigantic achievement considering they were made in a factory built to make argicultural tractors with also the lack of robots and the issues of power outages, (they need gigantic amounts of electricity to weld with a gigantic workforce like theirs that work on these war machines)
Their small arms are Soviet, same with their planes with some modernizations. Their pilots are good enough to fly patrols but they have little to no chance of success against a trained NATO pilot even if they had comparable planes and firepower. That's why the Kim dynasty would rather show off their brick-breaking soldiers.
Are you some sort of pilot training expert? Even if you saw footage you would have no idea if they are performing well or poorly because you don’t know anything about the subject.
you confused west-ukie relationsip with russian-korean ones. For exaple you got rid from falling from the skies super puma helis, and half of them already in the debris. One heli even carried avay to hell high ranking ukie official and bunch of kids, bc it landed on kindergarden. Look up ukraine super puma kindergarden in western sources if you dont believe me, lol
After Exporting Mountains Of 70 yrs old Artillary shells / artillaries and ammunition, North Korea is going to Get Hundreds Of Su-35, Su-57 Fighter jets along with New technologies. We don't need to be surprised If North Korea Starts Firing Khinzal Hyper Sonic Missiles Occasionally On South Korean High Tech / Arms Factories.
I think it would be incredibly hard to integrate those soldiers into the Russian army and keep them in line. Think about moral, language barrier, training etc.
@@AsgardVenture seperate battalions, like the axis and allies had during ww2, special belgian and dutch ss divisions, or french and polish divisions in the US army, that sort of stuff
@@AsgardVenture there is no language barrier if ya have 300.000 guys ....some generals get to know both Korean and Russian to follow the orders of M.O.D. and the soldiers just have their own platoons and companies ....morale for the Russian army cant go much lower .... and training has reached equal levels too .....the USSR never used human wave tactics, despite the western propaganda, however modern Russia does use them.....why ? because modern day Russia is an oligarchic joke, cosplaying as half of the nation they were previously ....and i mean half literally in terms of population
The USA and UN supply like 30 percent of their food... I found this out while stationed in south Korea and being in detail with ROK unloading ships in pusan and convoying up to freedom bridge.. 1992 and again in 2004.. and it still goes on today.
@@peterisawesomeplease Check the UN reports on the subject. In a communist state fixated on military and weapons production, there is little room for agricultural development. SK and US propaganda aside, NK imports of food from SK(Yes, NK imports rice from its enemies, just like the USSR did) and food imports were, as of july 2023 75% of 2019 total. Agricultural output dropped 180,000 tonnes last year. Furthermore, the regime cracked down on small private markets during 2020 and 2021
@@mcmelonmaster Zip lock bag? Clearly you're a western imperialist who never wrapped his rations in cabbage leaves. A most intelligent ration wrapping cause it is ration wrapped in more ration.
The article does not talk about possible trade offs NK could make in terms of what it's getting in return for the delivered MLRS missiles delivered to Russia. Russia has a lot to offer NK that could make NK supply more of the Rockets than initially thought possible
Its no coincidence that North Korea now has a spy satellite. They can easily send rocket scientists or at least plans to teach them how to Rocket Science.
Thank you for your analysis. Who would have foreseen at the start of the invasion that Putin would be humbled to making overtures to N Korea to keep their military treading water.
@@icecoldpolitics8890pushing back Russia where ? it has been quite a while since the counter offensive has gained territory around robotino and Backmut, in fact it seems like Russian has been capturing territory all over the front line, especially around Backmut and adviika.
@@tomk3732 I wouldn't say so. Equipping current DPRK forces with 2nd gen NVG's would cost around 5.2 billion USD, around an eight of the DPRK's assumed GDP. I'd assume their special forces have their hands on at least gen 2 NVG's, but not their standard ground forces. Compared to that, practically every soldier in the US Army would have access to at least gen 2 NVG's, and their more elite forces likely have access to Gen 3 NVG's.
@@rick7424 Today this is a non issue - most of their tanks have thermals and all of their equipment has some form of night vision. Come on - we are talking here about tech that existed since WWII.
I absolutely love the visuals! Did you have any inspiration from Kamome? I have to say between between your satellite imagery, Kamome's visual style of presentation, and Perun's amazing presentations its quite the toss up every week for who will release the best content!
If you have two evenly matched, stalemated forces (which you’ve basically had for a year now in Ukraine), every little bit of help matters. Getting millions of extra artillery shells from North Korea will matter, especially when enthusiasm for aid to Ukraine is dimming. The Iranian aid alone flipped the drone balance of terror on the front, despite Iran not being a great military power in most respects.
Shaded managed to hit a few civilian facilities, not flip the drone balance. Both sides seem to have pretty equal drone capability, with russia being slower to adopt it, but having a numbers advantage of larger, higher flying drones, while ukraine was quick to adopt smaller recon and strike drones, but lacks the signficant amount of longer ranged and larger drones russia has. Lancet was a more important advancement on the drone front than shaded.
@@rollercoasterintogiantdomo You . . sure? Shaded can't hit the broad side of a barn, and its slow as hell. Anti air defence work is nowhere near what it was meant to do, its a sky moped with a bomb meant to saturate air defences to hit large civilian facilities. Are you sure that you aren't thinking of Lancet? Lancet is accurate and much faster and smaller than a shaded, and it has actually scored kills against air defence systems, unlike the shaded.
@@jurajsintaj6644 Shaded has 50kg of explosive warhead while Lancet 5kg!..if you havent seen shaheed vs strategic targets is because shahed lack of camera , beside in Ukraine is not allowed to post videos.
@@jurajsintaj6644 Lancet is more effective in terms of real-time battlefield intel and smaller targets, but Shahed is the greater threat to strategic targets and a big drain on air defenses. In any case, hundreds upon hundreds of Shaheds showing up when Russia was reeling certainly helped turn the tide. There was a Reuters article out the other week where Ukrainian drone pilots themselves admitted they’d lost their early superiority in FPVs, and clearly Shahed played its part.
The EU is a retirement home slash welfare state. The EU didn't see a point when it can piggy back off the US. Only the dissolution of NATO would see a return of European arms...probably to fight other Europeans instead of Russia or Iran.
They work in South Korean factories in exchange for goods and money aswell. Suppose you forgot about that... They also have an unofficial construction Companys in middle east aswell as South East Asia.
DPRK is a funny name for North Korea... That's like selling your potato chips as "Healthy Flavorful Vegetable Slices". Do you really expect to fool anybody with that?
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 It is funny because the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" is not democratic, is not a republic and it is not run by the people. 3/4th of the name are just empty words that sound nice.
@@Boz196 North Korea is more akin to an absolute monarchy than a democracy. The Kim family has been ruling the country uninterruptedly for 3 generations. And the next leader will be determined by blood line as well. Kim Il Sung was never voted into his position by the people of Korea. He was installed by Stalin as the ruler of Soviet-occupied Korea. And by the way: You're wrong about the meaning of the word democracy. It comes from the greek words demos = people and kratos = rule. It doesn't mean "elected by the people" it means "ruled by its people" as opposed to a king who does whatever the fu** he wants. Why do you even defend North Korea's claim of being a democracy? Are you a Tankie?
No evidence ever provided for such bold assertions and people grasp about Yeonpyeong bombardment when those were rockets with thermobaric warheads which at the time were unknown for NK to possess with NK being only one that apparently developed such warhead for 122mm rockets.
Nah, people use routinely ammo that is 50+ years old. Some used WWI ammo. It is all good. Chemicals used are very stable. I would be more worried about accuracy which due to primitive production may not be as good - but not a huge difference here either.
the accuracy of your information is suspect or doubtful because its all American talking points based on what source inside the north korean military. because only they can know, everyone else is guessing or lying.
If you have a reliable source of info that's working in the DPRK ISF or army I'm sure there's plenty of people out there who would love you to share that.
4:50 America has munitions that are designed to penetrate places like this, I’m sure they’ve given South Korea These. Mission is well not to mention South Korea knows North Korean plans of defence as well so I bet they prepared and drilled for the situation’s.
The North Korean army would be very good fighting a defensive war, but would have distinct limitations in an offensive war. Being a rigidly totalitarian system officers will tend to wait for 'orders from above' rather than taking the initiative with 'on the ground' decisions. In a defensive war this doesn't matter too much but it is a massive weakness when fighting against a far more flexible enemy.
Makes sense though. Why would North Korea need to fight an offensive war, there was never any plan to, at least since the USSR collapsed and they fell behind ROK.
@6:10 Something seems off. Looking at how these tubes often jerk around more than sway, suggest there's quite little inertia (=> little mass). I suspect these to be empty. If the ones at the outer propaganda shutterbug lines are empty, I can't imagine the rest of the ~300 tubes are any better. It could be that they're just not loaded for the parade, but they have the looks of a sealed unit.
Yes, the numbers look impressive for a nation that has not faced incoming fire for 70+ years. Static, shooting gallery training is worthless. Large stockpiles of ammunition that is aging in these tunnel fortresses for decades is not fine wine, it doesn't improve with age. As for their generals... a chest of 'perfect attendance' and 'good old boy' medals is not the same as battlefield experience. Bottom line, parade ground soldiers are just that, poor actors with pretty uniforms.
1:26 "They do not, technically have separate military services" Proceeds to show 5 services + other less major services. The "Army" in this sense is equivalent to "Armed Forces", just like China have the PLA - The People's Liberation *ARMY*, -Ground Force, -Navy, -Air Force, -Navy Marine Corps (PLAGF, PLAAF, PLANMC) exactly the same. Are you seriously going to suggest they don't have different services? A minute and a half in and already off to a shaky start.
If I were Kim visiting Moscovia, I would decline the tea and stay away from any windows. (It's not polite to make Vlad feel like he's your biatch!) Of course neither of them are very good at intimidating their enimies.
This is the first and only analysis of North Korean Military i hv seen that is a bit more realistic. Most i see all seem to demonise, under estimate North korean capabilities. Things like they hv w1 weapons, fight with spears, etc. I guess the Ukraine war has brought to realities that high-tech weapons are good but only if u are targeting single targets. But is full scale war old methods of artillary, and mass numbers of boots on the ground win the day. F35s have a limited number of weaopens they can carry for given period. And now courtries like Russia have air denfence systems to take out F35s .
@@jurajsintaj6644 nothing is wrong with it, but he's content lately is everything based into it. It's getting pretty boring. I think he got obsessed buying satellite images. I missed the old content where he make analysis on equipment like patriot, s-400, tanks etc.
And you need to make an entire video on this? The NK regime is extremely organized and can easily put 1-2 million people at work in labor-slave conditions in huge military factories to produce insane amounts of basic ammo for small arms, artilley and especially MLRS relieving large portions of Russia's military complex of this task and allowing it to focus on producing more high tech ammo and weaponry Plus it is well known that NK has colossal stockpiles of such ammo, shells and rockets so they can work as a supply buffer giving the chance to Russia to mount huge offensives in short notice
Proxy wars are the best way to get experience and not affect DPRK directly. Case in point: Iran should ask Putin to let an Iranian Army division carry out missions for Russia and use a mix of Iranian and Russian weapons. The Iranian general in charge of his forces in Ukraine would meet with a Russian general specifically tasked with assigning missions to Iranian forces. The Iranian general and his field commanders take it from there. No reason why Kim shouldn't find this to be a great experience for his forces. Maybe put them on point and have them clear the path for Russian forces to approach and take Kiev.
Funny watching the North Korean military training videos and those tactical rolls a few of the troops did that serve no purpose. It reminded me of the VDV videos and the useless things they do.
All armies still do them if not just for physical training. I know in my western country we are taught that It is actually beneficial when falling after a run depending on the circumstance.
@@supa3ek Martial arts training always starts with that. Classic Judo Ukemi, etc. It's important to know how to get down, fall down as safely as possible and how to get up, and how to set up your gear in a way it gets in the way of movement as little as possible. Then again, there have also been backflip tomahawk throwing and other silly things like that...
People have been meat riding in the war ever since it started and it goes to show how much misinformation and propaganda both sides show it’s hilarious
Tecnology can massive damage The old Artillery and storage so stockpiling it may cause many more Cain reaction of destination High-tech is expensive but one presise can distroye mountain of arti shells That's why u should have large amount of arti shells stored but also capacity of manufacturing one Never ever store large amount of explosives it's easy pecking for expensive presise weapons
mechanized warfare plays the most important part in modern conflicts, even the poorest african warlord skirmishes have a good amount of hiluxes speeding around. DPRK, on the other hand while maintaining such a huge army, has so little oil, their pilots struggles to keep up with sufficient flight hours.
I had to check, but the parade clips in your video are indeed North Korean. So they dumped their decades old signature jumpy parade style and adapted the Chinese style. Does that mean other organizational and doctrine shift in the North Korean military as well?
NK military is 90+% defense based, and it's done on purpose. NK not only stockpiles shell - they produce them, so RU may contract their production capacity.
This is _heavily_ counterbalanced by North Korea's *EXTREME* distance from where the shells need to go. There is literally _an entire Russia_ between it and its destination. They unironically would have been better off being further away because at that point shipping would have been easier and more convenient. Relying on NK stockpiles only means further strain on Russia's already overtaxed railway network.
@@korayven9255 you are not correct, train carts need to travel back anyway. So RU supplies NK with smth l, and on the way back - shells. Also, they have ports.
@@hhkk6155It requires them shipping it all the way from DPRK to a Russian port. (Vladivostok, polar ports, St. Petersburg are inaccessible this time of year). Black Sea is dangerous, and I don’t know if they’re allowed to go there. I think Murmansk is still accessible though.
If western countries continue to sit on their hands then sure. Otherwise no chance. Artillery is a decisive class of weapon only in environments where means to counter it are limited or absent. The western way of war deals with artillery with airpower and ground launched missiles, among other things. If we provided sufficient such means to neuter it, artillery would lose its prominence in this conflict and thus so would the contributions DPRK might make. And even if western countries continue failing to locate their balls, it must be said that DPRK does not have large amount of shells in the caliber used types by most Russian tube artillery, that being 152 mm.
Exactly - this is why it is certain Ukraine will loose the war - they are out gunned 5:1 in artillery alone not to mention air power and long range missiles or drones. And they will not be given by the west 100s of aircraft or similar assets to counter Russia to even make it 3:1 in favor of Russia. To make it 1:1 would be near impossible - especially now that over 40% of Americans say US is doing to much in Ukraine.
@@tomk3732 Ukraine began the war outgunned about 10:1 in tubes and 5:1 shells fired. Despite that, Russia has lost about half the territory it captured in its early surprise blitz. So the disparity in artillery did not provide Russia a decisive advantage. Moreover, as with most platforms, it has narrowed. Shells fired for example are down to maybe 2:1 and parity during Ukrainian offensives. There's several reasons for this, e.g. poor Russian doctrine, training and morale, insufficient manpower, the destruction of ammo dumps with HIMARS, etc. Not sure what poll you have in mind. Most I've seen are c. 60% support, 30% don't support, 10% don't know. When info about Russian losses is provided alongside the question it rises to 65% support. If your party wins 60 to 30 that would be called a landslide victory.
@@williamhenry8914 Of course lol. Artillery is a decisive weapon in war. That is why Ukraine has far greater losses than Russia. Imagine, Ukraine instead of defending itself, it attacks Russia. Ukrainians attack fortified Russian positions through kilometers of minefields and are bombarded with artillery. They attack the best prepared positions. It's no wonder they couldn't break through the first line of defense. When Ukraine exhausts its resources, Russia will occupy as much as it wants. No one believes in the nonsense you state.
@@williamhenry8914 Most of the territory Russia lost it did not control as it invaded with an army smaller then the defender and of tiny size for territory it supposedly occupied. The major factor here was heavy use of armor which gave tiny Russian army mobility and fire power advantage. The artillery advantage did not narrow - Ukraine has far fewer systems now than at the start of the war and fires less now - by wide margin - than in the first month of the war. Russian gamble to encircle Kiev was due to 1:1 artillery parity - i.e. Russia did not have advantage. I use gallup poll. Well know. "41% of Americans say U.S. is doing too much to support Ukraine" "61% of Americans say the financial aid Ukraine receives from Washington should have limits" - so yes, by a landslide American public is saying that help should be limited and rather significant minority says its too much. Also gallup shows the trend is increasing - so by spring we may have more than 41% saying too much. Russian losses are UA losses divided by 3 or so, at least.
While the European countries failed to supply 1 million artillery shells to Ukraine, most heavily Sanctioned North Korea has been able to supply the same to Russia. How ironic is that.
@@tempejklThe "peace deal" was a farce that absolutely no one would accept, nothing more than a falsehood for a talking point that idiots like yourself could waste people's time with.
Well, north Korea has one of the biggest artillery munition stockpiles in the world, and artillery shells get expended pretty fast. Even the US would be asking for help from south Korea if it were in Russia's situation
@@maximilianodelrio exactly, its crazy that people genuinely think that Russia (the largest military on the planet) is actually on its last legs because less than 1/3rd its active duty are stationed in the donbas and even less than them are actually fighting
No. Red Army doctrine is based on swift attack and mechanised weapons. Maybe in WW2 when things were desperate you are right, but no one was taken care of (Stalin and Zhukov stayed in Moscow when Germans were still close in order to protect the city)
@@tempejkl well they still do this ,, not openly ,,, you can see in Ukraine,, imagine if you have 1 Millions people and and 10% of them is competent that will be a hundred thousand people
@@megadwipayana5544 That’s not the red army though, that’s the Russian army. Things have changed since Soviet times, even though a lot of Soviet equipment is still used.
@@tempejkl they are same people mate the flag change but the doctrine not see how ez they used their comrade as a Cannon fodder ???? That exactly what the red army do also mass produce simple and cheap equipment for infantry that prove they still use that doctrine
What about shell production? 152mm shells are not high tech. They have been produced for 80 years. North Korea needs Russian oil and gas. . It decently can increase it's shell production dramatically. They have a work force, they can get all required components from Russians
its hilarious to see the west essentially realize "maybe our enemies are not the cartoonishly incompetent villains we make them out to be and there is a lot more nuance to the situation than is usually let on
Pride cometh before the fall, and there lot of Pride in the West. Hell, most people don't realize how militarized and obscenely disproportionate is SOUTH KOREAN artillery. In terms of shells they outproduce USA & EU put together.
I guess you never heard of the Maginot line? Fixed fortress type installations have proved useless in modern warfare. Those Koreans will be entombed under their mountains. Yes they are incompetent villains without a doubt, but still very dangerous. That's the nuance. Or was it something else?
In short, North Korea is the following. Mostly cannon fodder that would be hit the moment they moved via being spotted by special forces unit. Them having no real way to prevent strikes against them and being larger targets via infantry focus. A few hard points type bunkers with artillery that would both predict where their artillery was and their range. These places would most likely have air sorties over them none stop and one by one be attacked by expeditionary air forces. Sieged until starved or out of relevance, since the war would end at some point. Air force that would be wiped out instantly. Mechanized miliary that would be too small to really do much and be a way to juicy target for air focused enemies like the West is. They would be driving without air cover and with AA that could maybe shoot down ww2 or 80s planes, aka they would in all practicality be defenseless. And a few nukes that would probably hit Seoul or other cities. Basically, a show parade, but mostly cannon fodder military and a few nukes. They can sell old artilleri shells for goods and probably slow down their own stockpiling to serve exports, but NK being a long term solution for Russia seems less likely, I think. Russia will also have the issue that even if they do get their ammunition sorted. Swarm attacks on weapon systems that are so small they do not really show up on their radars that well. Will remove key capabilities from operational areas to the point Ukraine might be given more air power since less would be shot down.
Ukraine seem to have more and more problems getting new soldiers to the frontline. Sadly it seems like Ukraine will simply have to lose some of its territory officially. Or else they will simply run out of battle capable men who are ready to die. Men who were taken off the streets by force but don’t want to fight are not greatest soldiers.
@@moritamikamikara3879What he said is easily verifiable. Reporting a fact doesn't make you a Russian stooge, it just means you're not high on copium. lol Ukrainians themselves are starting to say the same thing.
Ah yes, the latest Russian talking point. Ukraine might as well give up now because they obviously have no chance. In case you haven't been paying attention, Russia's manpower situation is not much better. Sure, the Russian population is more than 3x that of Ukraine, but Putin is well aware of the fact that he cannot fully mobilize it. As long as it is Siberians and Muslims from the Stans dying Muscovites won't raise too much of a stink. Start sending more of those white kids from Moscow and St. Petersburg to be ground up at the front and then we'll see what happens. It is obvious that Putin understands this all too well. If he thought otherwise, Russia would have fully mobilized long ago. How's the weather in St. Petersburg?
@@cruise_missile8387 "Easily verifiable" yeah through pro-Russian telegram videos showing always the same "Ukrainian" recruiter who walks like he has a stick up his behind. And always wearing a balaclava too.
Is it not just a paper tiger like russian army, how many rounds do you think a north korean soldiers fires when training a year? It relies on numbers and artillery, as the russians have shown it only gets you so far
Turn the tide? The conflict has been always a lost for Ukraine since the beginning, they have run out of everything to throw at Russians. But to be honest, the Ukraines chosed to elect an comedy to be their president and now they will pay the price.
You mean a formerly pro-Russian comedian who used to speak Russian elected as President on the votes of formerly pro-Russian Ukrainians. Like, let's forget that he was elected partly because of his platform of normalizing relationship with Russia even if it means making the LPR and DPR autonomous regions...
Because Zelensky promised Eastern Ukraine people all of his supposed “peaceful” policies. But of course, he never intended to keep his promise and proceed to went all in with his Russophobia’s policies in stead. So yes, he fooled them all Also the number of votes coming from Eastern Ukraines although was significant, would never be enough to elect Zelensky to be the nation’s president.
Here is a Random Fun Fact: It was Russia who saved The Union during the American Civil War as they sent their Navy to San Francisco and New York when England and France were just about to enter the war on the side of the Confederates since London created the Confederates. France was already in Mexico making a spear head movement to resupply the Confederates and to open up a Pacific Theatre and to create a port in California. England already amassed 11,000 troops and growing stationed at their Northern Confederacies border now called Canada ready to open a Northern Theatre to divert Union troops away from their Southern Confederacy then to attack The Unions naval blockade. The Union would have been completely destroyed and annexed by those two great powers leaving the Confederates to exist as either a puppet state of London or to be fully brought back into the fold of the British Empire. London was already courting (threatening/bribing) other countries to get involved like Spain while Russia was in talks with Prussia to ally with incase London was to intervene. Seeing all of this Tsar Alexander II wrote a letter to Queen Victoria saying “If you enter in this war it will be a casus belli for all out war with the Russian Empire”. The stage was set for the 1st World War and Russia stopped it. There is also a memorial in San Francisco for the hundreds of Russian sailors who came off their Asiatic fleet ships that died while helping the city put out a fire that threatened to lay waste to it during the War.
The Russian fleet also threatened to Shell Australian ports along with other British Pacific Colonies if Britain aided the Confederates. A confederate war ship spent a lot of time in Australian waters and was supported by the Australian public, some even signing on as crew members. This Confederate war ship laid waist to the US Pacific whaling fleet and is reported to have fired the last shot in the war Russia also helped Thailand (Kingdom of Siam) maintain its sovereignty from being completely Partitioned/Annexed from the British and French around the same time. The very word Thai (ไทย) means 'free man' in the Thai language which is partially to thank to the Russians as they might have ended up being a colony or part of another country/colony if not for their intervention.
Russia wasn't going to do jack. Their navy was smashed in the Crimean War. The Confederacy wasn't worth enough for the British and French to invest in.
It was the Russian navy that staved off the Martian invasion of 2230 by shelling the moon base with unguided rockets that could not be hacked by the AI virus.
I was hoping for a guess at the number of artillery tubes NK is giving to Russia. Assuming it's few to none, I'd expect Russia to run out of barrels now, before shells.
Barrels are easier to manufacture then Shells, if you have a big domestic steel inddustry. Which russia coincidentially has. So i don't think we have to worry or hope about russian barrels.
heard the NK artillery shells got a pretty high rate of duds so basically ur saying... southkorea needs about 2 million ipv drones i am quite afraid of insect sized drones just landing on somebodies forehead
@@hhkk6155 my information is based of NK shells fired at a south korean island, meaning all shells were NK and SK had radar traces, were able to count the shots and analyze each one while stating about a 10% failture rate... ur telling me, ukrainian soldiers under artellery bombardment not knowing how many shells were launched, if russian or NK produced and how many actually worked as intended "confirm" ur data... maybe the south koreans lied in order to humiliate kim but until i get some more information i rather trust SK
I guess this is why it has been called North Korea for so long. Anything that is capable of landing something in the US is taken seriously. Like with the invention of the jet engine, the world felt as if it was becoming smaller.
I wonder if DPRK will send an expeditionary force to help Russia in Ukraine so that their military gets combat experience and test their doctrine and equipment.
No. Those shells are over 40 years old and I'm shure those primers arec well beyond their time. They might egnite but only I'm estimating 10 percent of the time.
Alot of shells are stored without primers so you insert them before shipping. This practice massively expands the lifetime of shells. West and east both do this
You made many good points. So yeah I wish china didn't get involved for some unrealisticly alternate scenario logic nd the south and NATO won the Korean war even more now,
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It's hard to say the KPA resembles a Soviet army when the Soviet army was almost 100% mechanized compared to a 93% un-mechanized KPA.
They resemble each other in that they are (or were in the soviet's case) built around fending off a massive invasion. The DPRK has artillery bunkers, the soviets had tank bunkers, etc...
@@92HazelMocha The Soviet Doctrine wasn't about fending off invasion, their idea of defense was mass counter invasion using their mechanized forces.
@@yoloman3607 No, it was built to grind the enemy down during their initial offensive, then immediately counter attack, and as soon the advance slowed, dig in and repeat. There was no belief that NATO forces when dug in could be displaced by the red army with any reasonable level of success. They planned on crushing NATO offensives, then quickly advancing before NATO forces could reorganize.
@@92HazelMocha ????? Their entire doctrine is called the "deep strike" doctrine and their battle drills are built to mass firepower and obliterate defensive positions with "overwhelming shock". Almost all NATO predictions ended at least a partial Soviet victory in a conventional war leveraging their massive ground armies to sweep away NATO defense positions.
@@92HazelMocha Any good recommended reading sources for more on that?
The one thing I see rarely mentioned is the DPRK's incredibly sized chemical and biological weapon stockpiles.
I would think they are more of a threat than their nuclear weapons stockpile due to abundance of both quantity and delivery systems. And I would hazard to guess that would be the grouping of weaapons theey would turn to before finally going nuclear in the event of a conflict going poorly.
Due to that always being an ever present possibility and detterent I am certain this is one of the main reasons they are so comfortable trading massive amounts of standard artillery and missiles to Russia.
chemical and biological weapons are mostly terror weapons - they're not better at causing casualties compared to conventional munitions or incendiaries but they cause much more suffering. there's exceptions like wuhan-chan but the strength of that was really that people didn't know that they were sick and spread it everywhere. for DPRK where they have closed borders to everyone, biological weapons aren't really a major issue.
Also, Seoul is close, imagine that city coming under arty fire...
Chemical and biological weapons are generally not very effective against a prepared military foe. They’re great against civilians (so they’d probably be extremely effective against, say, Seoul) but use against military targets is usually not worth it.
Still not near as much of a threat as the United States.
@@Michael-wo6ld
There's certain types of chemical and biological weapons which don't give a damn about preparations (higher end nerve agents that can eat away at filters quite rapidly, weaponized Anthrax, etc). This and South Korea's legendary level of corruption (even in the military) can mean preparedness for such a NBC hit could be much lower than expected.
Next video: CovertCabal buys up a whole bunch of satellite imagery to count up all the hidden gun emplacements.
Hidden seems to be the key word haha. Ain't no way he could count them lol
Hmmm ok , they are Hidden , but maybe you could Spot hints Things that are suspicious like relative good roads in an abondoned area for supplies, or something like this 😅
@@grobbs666
The thing that fascinates me most about the DPRK and what we don't get to see enough of is what do their small arms look like and how do their fighters look when they fly, the skill level of their pilots etc.
they don't have the fuel to train their pilots well, most likely their pilots are worse than iraqi pilots. And that's not saying much.
oh you just have to look deeper, they have quite a lot of equipment, all of it is self made by this point, enough footage of the factories they were built at too, they can produce over 20 heavy missile artillery systems in just a few months which is a gigantic achievement considering they were made in a factory built to make argicultural tractors with also the lack of robots and the issues of power outages, (they need gigantic amounts of electricity to weld with a gigantic workforce like theirs that work on these war machines)
Their small arms are Soviet, same with their planes with some modernizations. Their pilots are good enough to fly patrols but they have little to no chance of success against a trained NATO pilot even if they had comparable planes and firepower.
That's why the Kim dynasty would rather show off their brick-breaking soldiers.
Are you some sort of pilot training expert? Even if you saw footage you would have no idea if they are performing well or poorly because you don’t know anything about the subject.
Stop coping 🧢 they have nukes AND delivery systems : ICBMs and nuke subs. They can easily do a emp attack on US disabling grid
NK found a cheap way to get rid of their oldest and least reliable ammunition. Not only get rid of old shells, but extract high end aid from Russia.
Plus, they've managed to turn Russia into their Vassal state.
Yeah, North Korea is getting the better end of the deal than Russia
you confused west-ukie relationsip with russian-korean ones. For exaple you got rid from falling from the skies super puma helis, and half of them already in the debris. One heli even carried avay to hell high ranking ukie official and bunch of kids, bc it landed on kindergarden. Look up ukraine super puma kindergarden in western sources if you dont believe me, lol
After Exporting Mountains Of 70 yrs old Artillary shells / artillaries and ammunition, North Korea is going to Get Hundreds Of Su-35, Su-57 Fighter jets along with New technologies. We don't need to be surprised If North Korea Starts Firing Khinzal Hyper Sonic Missiles Occasionally On South Korean High Tech / Arms Factories.
They were sold junk shells by the Russians and are now selling them back.
Source that its oldest and least reliable?
Oh Nevermind, you dont have it.
the biggest threat from NK could be manpower .... imagine if they contract out 2-300k men to Russian PMC's
I think it would be incredibly hard to integrate those soldiers into the Russian army and keep them in line. Think about moral, language barrier, training etc.
NK is an hermit kingdom and any interaction between its citizens and the outside world is very dangerous for the stability of the system.
@@AsgardVenture Excellent point. NK soldiers have zero training and experience, they wouldn't last an day.
@@AsgardVenture seperate battalions, like the axis and allies had during ww2, special belgian and dutch ss divisions, or french and polish divisions in the US army, that sort of stuff
@@AsgardVenture there is no language barrier if ya have 300.000 guys ....some generals get to know both Korean and Russian to follow the orders of M.O.D. and the soldiers just have their own platoons and companies ....morale for the Russian army cant go much lower .... and training has reached equal levels too .....the USSR never used human wave tactics, despite the western propaganda, however modern Russia does use them.....why ? because modern day Russia is an oligarchic joke, cosplaying as half of the nation they were previously ....and i mean half literally in terms of population
The USA and UN supply like 30 percent of their food... I found this out while stationed in south Korea and being in detail with ROK unloading ships in pusan and convoying up to freedom bridge.. 1992 and again in 2004.. and it still goes on today.
Russia can easily provide them the food and agricultural means to develop their own agricultural base.
I don't believe this is currently correct. At various points in the past it was true but not today.
Same with Gaza, completely dependent on US and European food aid.
@@peterisawesomeplease Check the UN reports on the subject. In a communist state fixated on military and weapons production, there is little room for agricultural development. SK and US propaganda aside, NK imports of food from SK(Yes, NK imports rice from its enemies, just like the USSR did) and food imports were, as of july 2023 75% of 2019 total. Agricultural output dropped 180,000 tonnes last year. Furthermore, the regime cracked down on small private markets during 2020 and 2021
@@Gearparadummies None of the things you listed change the correctness of my statement. But interesting.
Much awaited, much appreciated looking forward to excellent insights as always from you.
Considering the fact that the Russian army says that North Korean shells don’t always fire is kinda a giveaway
Because they are very old and far beyond expiry date, I think.... 😁
On the contrary, they are of decent quality
@user-me5oq3kl4h maybe for 70 years ago
I want to see what a north korean MRE looks like lol
An empty zip lock bag..
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@@mcmelonmaster Zip lock bag? Clearly you're a western imperialist who never wrapped his rations in cabbage leaves.
A most intelligent ration wrapping cause it is ration wrapped in more ration.
The article does not talk about possible trade offs NK could make in terms of what it's getting in return for the delivered MLRS missiles delivered to Russia. Russia has a lot to offer NK that could make NK supply more of the Rockets than initially thought possible
as far as i heard, russia will buildt at least two nuklear powerplants for them.
Its no coincidence that North Korea now has a spy satellite. They can easily send rocket scientists or at least plans to teach them how to Rocket Science.
Thank you for your analysis. Who would have foreseen at the start of the invasion that Putin would be humbled to making overtures to N Korea to keep their military treading water.
Who would foresee that NAFO-LGTV is losing to a country with such small GDP 😂😂😂😂
U.S is doing the same with Pakistan and S.Korea.
@@hhkk6155what‘s NADO LGTV and who are they losing to??
@@hhkk6155 That's why Ukraine is still pushing back russia right? Cause Nato is losing to NK?
@@icecoldpolitics8890pushing back Russia where ? it has been quite a while since the counter offensive has gained territory around robotino and Backmut, in fact it seems like Russian has been capturing territory all over the front line, especially around Backmut and adviika.
North Korea woukd also struggle in nighttime engagements. Back in round 1 both sides had roughly the same equipment and darkness hampered both sides.
Maybe in thermals - a lot of other equipment of older gen is cheap.
@@tomk3732I doubt their tanks have night vision or thermal
@@tomk3732 I wouldn't say so. Equipping current DPRK forces with 2nd gen NVG's would cost around 5.2 billion USD, around an eight of the DPRK's assumed GDP. I'd assume their special forces have their hands on at least gen 2 NVG's, but not their standard ground forces. Compared to that, practically every soldier in the US Army would have access to at least gen 2 NVG's, and their more elite forces likely have access to Gen 3 NVG's.
@@EE-dj7et LOL, you are using US pricing - use cheap Asian pricing - we are talking maybe 100 - 150 USD per system.
@@rick7424 Today this is a non issue - most of their tanks have thermals and all of their equipment has some form of night vision. Come on - we are talking here about tech that existed since WWII.
I absolutely love the visuals! Did you have any inspiration from Kamome? I have to say between between your satellite imagery, Kamome's visual style of presentation, and Perun's amazing presentations its quite the toss up every week for who will release the best content!
If you have two evenly matched, stalemated forces (which you’ve basically had for a year now in Ukraine), every little bit of help matters. Getting millions of extra artillery shells from North Korea will matter, especially when enthusiasm for aid to Ukraine is dimming. The Iranian aid alone flipped the drone balance of terror on the front, despite Iran not being a great military power in most respects.
Shaded managed to hit a few civilian facilities, not flip the drone balance. Both sides seem to have pretty equal drone capability, with russia being slower to adopt it, but having a numbers advantage of larger, higher flying drones, while ukraine was quick to adopt smaller recon and strike drones, but lacks the signficant amount of longer ranged and larger drones russia has. Lancet was a more important advancement on the drone front than shaded.
@@jurajsintaj6644 Shahed is very effective. Even if it misses it's target, the threat alone keeps air defense systems away from the frontline.
@@rollercoasterintogiantdomo You . . sure? Shaded can't hit the broad side of a barn, and its slow as hell. Anti air defence work is nowhere near what it was meant to do, its a sky moped with a bomb meant to saturate air defences to hit large civilian facilities. Are you sure that you aren't thinking of Lancet? Lancet is accurate and much faster and smaller than a shaded, and it has actually scored kills against air defence systems, unlike the shaded.
@@jurajsintaj6644 Shaded has 50kg of explosive warhead while Lancet 5kg!..if you havent seen shaheed vs strategic targets is because shahed lack of camera , beside in Ukraine is not allowed to post videos.
@@jurajsintaj6644 Lancet is more effective in terms of real-time battlefield intel and smaller targets, but Shahed is the greater threat to strategic targets and a big drain on air defenses. In any case, hundreds upon hundreds of Shaheds showing up when Russia was reeling certainly helped turn the tide. There was a Reuters article out the other week where Ukrainian drone pilots themselves admitted they’d lost their early superiority in FPVs, and clearly Shahed played its part.
Long awaited video! Thank you for the content
It’s funny that little North Korea can send 1 million shells to an ally, but the entire European Union can’t
Europe is bunny rabbit soft.
It helps that North Korea is essentially a military base masquerading as a country that spends over half its revenue on the military...
The EU is a retirement home slash welfare state. The EU didn't see a point when it can piggy back off the US. Only the dissolution of NATO would see a return of European arms...probably to fight other Europeans instead of Russia or Iran.
EU spent its money on more productive things than explosive weaponry with a limited usable shelf life and no place to use them all before expiration.
It’s not funny, the North Koreans are starving, suppressed and have no other purpose than satisfying king fatty the turds fantasy of being a leader.
Thanks!
What is it with eastern block countries and their ridiculous uniforms?
Whats up with west and their wоmеn generals, and trаny mеntаlly ill generals/admirals? 😂😂😂 A сlоwn show of the world
@@hhkk6155 at least half of them are not in the grave lmao
@@wingedvictory8694 do you think NK generals are in grave? Or Russian generals? Stop believing propaganda
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They work in South Korean factories in exchange for goods and money aswell.
Suppose you forgot about that...
They also have an unofficial construction Companys in middle east aswell as South East Asia.
DPRK is a funny name for North Korea...
That's like selling your potato chips as "Healthy Flavorful Vegetable Slices".
Do you really expect to fool anybody with that?
That's its official name, so ehat about it that offends you?
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131
It is funny because the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" is not democratic, is not a republic and it is not run by the people.
3/4th of the name are just empty words that sound nice.
You realise democracy just means elected by the people? The workers party was elected by the people which is why they call themselves democratic.
@@Betterhoseyeah.. like McDonald's isn't healthy or the US democrats don't always act according to their name .
@@Boz196
North Korea is more akin to an absolute monarchy than a democracy. The Kim family has been ruling the country uninterruptedly for 3 generations. And the next leader will be determined by blood line as well.
Kim Il Sung was never voted into his position by the people of Korea. He was installed by Stalin as the ruler of Soviet-occupied Korea.
And by the way:
You're wrong about the meaning of the word democracy. It comes from the greek words demos = people and kratos = rule. It doesn't mean "elected by the people" it means "ruled by its people" as opposed to a king who does whatever the fu** he wants.
Why do you even defend North Korea's claim of being a democracy? Are you a Tankie?
By some accounts, the ammo that NK has provided to Russia is decades old and the failure rate is as high as 60%.
No evidence ever provided for such bold assertions and people grasp about Yeonpyeong bombardment when those were rockets with thermobaric warheads which at the time were unknown for NK to possess with NK being only one that apparently developed such warhead for 122mm rockets.
That's a very bold assumption. Artillery shells ans ammunition unlike missiles can be stored for very long periods of time without failing.
@@corvoattano4777 That depends on how they are stored. The storage should be well ventiladed and dry.
@@corvoattano4777 Many reports now of NK shells explosing inside the barrels of Russian guns.
Nah, people use routinely ammo that is 50+ years old. Some used WWI ammo. It is all good. Chemicals used are very stable. I would be more worried about accuracy which due to primitive production may not be as good - but not a huge difference here either.
the accuracy of your information is suspect or doubtful because its all American talking points based on what source inside the north korean military. because only they can know, everyone else is guessing or lying.
If you have a reliable source of info that's working in the DPRK ISF or army I'm sure there's plenty of people out there who would love you to share that.
I see the KPA as a mostly defensive force, but someone once said, the best offence is a good defense.
Can supply large amounts of small arms
Shungun means not military first, but independent and not depend on others via military, economy, etc.
4:50 America has munitions that are designed to penetrate places like this, I’m sure they’ve given South Korea These. Mission is well not to mention South Korea knows North Korean plans of defence as well so I bet they prepared and drilled for the situation’s.
The North Korean army would be very good fighting a defensive war, but would have distinct limitations in an offensive war. Being a rigidly totalitarian system officers will tend to wait for 'orders from above' rather than taking the initiative with 'on the ground' decisions. In a defensive war this doesn't matter too much but it is a massive weakness when fighting against a far more flexible enemy.
we don’t know that
Exactly my thoughts
@@inf11 What we know is that their command structure is like the soviets, theirs soldiers cannot take initiative without orders from the higher up.
Makes sense though. Why would North Korea need to fight an offensive war, there was never any plan to, at least since the USSR collapsed and they fell behind ROK.
@6:10 Something seems off. Looking at how these tubes often jerk around more than sway, suggest there's quite little inertia (=> little mass). I suspect these to be empty. If the ones at the outer propaganda shutterbug lines are empty, I can't imagine the rest of the ~300 tubes are any better.
It could be that they're just not loaded for the parade, but they have the looks of a sealed unit.
What do the great leaders flunkies write in the little note books?
Yes, the numbers look impressive for a nation that has not faced incoming fire for 70+ years. Static, shooting gallery training is worthless. Large stockpiles of ammunition that is aging in these tunnel fortresses for decades is not fine wine, it doesn't improve with age. As for their generals... a chest of 'perfect attendance' and 'good old boy' medals is not the same as battlefield experience. Bottom line, parade ground soldiers are just that, poor actors with pretty uniforms.
Funny how the US couldn't take them though...
1:26 "They do not, technically have separate military services"
Proceeds to show 5 services + other less major services. The "Army" in this sense is equivalent to "Armed Forces", just like China have the PLA - The People's Liberation *ARMY*, -Ground Force, -Navy, -Air Force, -Navy Marine Corps (PLAGF, PLAAF, PLANMC) exactly the same. Are you seriously going to suggest they don't have different services? A minute and a half in and already off to a shaky start.
Military autism hitting like a mf
If I were Kim visiting Moscovia, I would decline the tea and stay away from any windows. (It's not polite to make Vlad feel like he's your biatch!) Of course neither of them are very good at intimidating their enimies.
Jimi Hendrix: Hey NoKor..
N.Korea: What Jimi?
Jimi Hendrix: Are you experienced?
(Plays guitar🎸: "🎼🎶🎵Wahhhhww-kuhk-wahrahh-kwahh-kuhh🎶🎵")
Artillery shells are artillery shells
Do Cuba
so funny to see they are all trained at the circus doing salto's and flipflops it's almost like belarus .
This is the first and only analysis of North Korean Military i hv seen that is a bit more realistic. Most i see all seem to demonise, under estimate North korean capabilities. Things like they hv w1 weapons, fight with spears, etc. I guess the Ukraine war has brought to realities that high-tech weapons are good but only if u are targeting single targets. But is full scale war old methods of artillary, and mass numbers of boots on the ground win the day. F35s have a limited number of weaopens they can carry for given period. And now courtries like Russia have air denfence systems to take out F35s .
Finally back to the old days. 😅 Analysis content, not satellite images inventory videos.
Why are satellite image inventory videos bad?
Hell, probably more reliable as a source of information than analysis.
@@jurajsintaj6644 nothing is wrong with it, but he's content lately is everything based into it. It's getting pretty boring. I think he got obsessed buying satellite images. I missed the old content where he make analysis on equipment like patriot, s-400, tanks etc.
Answer: It's called slave labor
Is that ICBM on a golf course
And you need to make an entire video on this?
The NK regime is extremely organized and can easily put 1-2 million people at work in labor-slave conditions in huge military factories to produce insane amounts of basic ammo for small arms, artilley and especially MLRS relieving large portions of Russia's military complex of this task and allowing it to focus on producing more high tech ammo and weaponry
Plus it is well known that NK has colossal stockpiles of such ammo, shells and rockets so they can work as a supply buffer giving the chance to Russia to mount huge offensives in short notice
This could be an opportunity for the KPA to get actual real combat experience.
Proxy wars are the best way to get experience and not affect DPRK directly.
Case in point: Iran should ask Putin to let an Iranian Army division carry out missions for Russia and use a mix of Iranian and Russian weapons. The Iranian general in charge of his forces in Ukraine would meet with a Russian general specifically tasked with assigning missions to Iranian forces. The Iranian general and his field commanders take it from there.
No reason why Kim shouldn't find this to be a great experience for his forces. Maybe put them on point and have them clear the path for Russian forces to approach and take Kiev.
@@BlackPill-pu4vi why do you want the fascists to win?
@@jurgnobs1308 Did he say he wants the fascists to win?
@@jurgnobs1308THERE WASNT EVEN ANY POLITICS ITS JUST MILITARY STRATEGY WHY ARE YOU SUCH AN INGROWN NAIL
@@uioplkhj yes.
Let's be real...
North Korea has OLD TECH, FACT.
And russia problems aren't just ammo
Funny watching the North Korean military training videos and those tactical rolls a few of the troops did that serve no purpose.
It reminded me of the VDV videos and the useless things they do.
All armies still do them if not just for physical training. I know in my western country we are taught that It is actually beneficial when falling after a run depending on the circumstance.
Western training incorporates pronouns, gender swapping, being obese, studying LGTV 😂😂😂😂
@@supa3ek Martial arts training always starts with that. Classic Judo Ukemi, etc. It's important to know how to get down, fall down as safely as possible and how to get up, and how to set up your gear in a way it gets in the way of movement as little as possible.
Then again, there have also been backflip tomahawk throwing and other silly things like that...
People have been meat riding in the war ever since it started and it goes to show how much misinformation and propaganda both sides show it’s hilarious
Tecnology can massive damage The old Artillery and storage so stockpiling it may cause many more Cain reaction of destination
High-tech is expensive but one presise can distroye mountain of arti shells
That's why u should have large amount of arti shells stored but also capacity of manufacturing one
Never ever store large amount of explosives it's easy pecking for expensive presise weapons
Knowledge!
so the Norks have their own Maginot Line.
mechanized warfare plays the most important part in modern conflicts, even the poorest african warlord skirmishes have a good amount of hiluxes speeding around. DPRK, on the other hand while maintaining such a huge army, has so little oil, their pilots struggles to keep up with sufficient flight hours.
I had to check, but the parade clips in your video are indeed North Korean. So they dumped their decades old signature jumpy parade style and adapted the Chinese style. Does that mean other organizational and doctrine shift in the North Korean military as well?
NK military is 90+% defense based, and it's done on purpose. NK not only stockpiles shell - they produce them, so RU may contract their production capacity.
This is _heavily_ counterbalanced by North Korea's *EXTREME* distance from where the shells need to go. There is literally _an entire Russia_ between it and its destination. They unironically would have been better off being further away because at that point shipping would have been easier and more convenient. Relying on NK stockpiles only means further strain on Russia's already overtaxed railway network.
Cope, vatnik.
@@wind2536 cope 🧢 harder 😂
@@korayven9255 you are not correct, train carts need to travel back anyway. So RU supplies NK with smth l, and on the way back - shells. Also, they have ports.
@@hhkk6155It requires them shipping it all the way from DPRK to a Russian port. (Vladivostok, polar ports, St. Petersburg are inaccessible this time of year). Black Sea is dangerous, and I don’t know if they’re allowed to go there. I think Murmansk is still accessible though.
The ROK would roll these fools up in short order , If the DPRK moved south their OR rate would be about 30% by the time they reached the border
Craziest cope 🧢🧢🧢 even crazier than UA defining RU 😂 ROK is military incapable - bunch of makeup wearing s0y consumers there 😅
NK couldn't even take on the Girl Scouts.
the true strength of DPRK is PRC
good one
If western countries continue to sit on their hands then sure. Otherwise no chance. Artillery is a decisive class of weapon only in environments where means to counter it are limited or absent. The western way of war deals with artillery with airpower and ground launched missiles, among other things. If we provided sufficient such means to neuter it, artillery would lose its prominence in this conflict and thus so would the contributions DPRK might make. And even if western countries continue failing to locate their balls, it must be said that DPRK does not have large amount of shells in the caliber used types by most Russian tube artillery, that being 152 mm.
Exactly - this is why it is certain Ukraine will loose the war - they are out gunned 5:1 in artillery alone not to mention air power and long range missiles or drones. And they will not be given by the west 100s of aircraft or similar assets to counter Russia to even make it 3:1 in favor of Russia. To make it 1:1 would be near impossible - especially now that over 40% of Americans say US is doing to much in Ukraine.
@@tomk3732no
@@tomk3732 Ukraine began the war outgunned about 10:1 in tubes and 5:1 shells fired. Despite that, Russia has lost about half the territory it captured in its early surprise blitz. So the disparity in artillery did not provide Russia a decisive advantage. Moreover, as with most platforms, it has narrowed. Shells fired for example are down to maybe 2:1 and parity during Ukrainian offensives. There's several reasons for this, e.g. poor Russian doctrine, training and morale, insufficient manpower, the destruction of ammo dumps with HIMARS, etc.
Not sure what poll you have in mind. Most I've seen are c. 60% support, 30% don't support, 10% don't know. When info about Russian losses is provided alongside the question it rises to 65% support. If your party wins 60 to 30 that would be called a landslide victory.
@@williamhenry8914 Of course lol. Artillery is a decisive weapon in war. That is why Ukraine has far greater losses than Russia. Imagine, Ukraine instead of defending itself, it attacks Russia. Ukrainians attack fortified Russian positions through kilometers of minefields and are bombarded with artillery. They attack the best prepared positions. It's no wonder they couldn't break through the first line of defense. When Ukraine exhausts its resources, Russia will occupy as much as it wants. No one believes in the nonsense you state.
@@williamhenry8914 Most of the territory Russia lost it did not control as it invaded with an army smaller then the defender and of tiny size for territory it supposedly occupied. The major factor here was heavy use of armor which gave tiny Russian army mobility and fire power advantage.
The artillery advantage did not narrow - Ukraine has far fewer systems now than at the start of the war and fires less now - by wide margin - than in the first month of the war. Russian gamble to encircle Kiev was due to 1:1 artillery parity - i.e. Russia did not have advantage.
I use gallup poll. Well know. "41% of Americans say U.S. is doing too much to support Ukraine" "61% of Americans say the financial aid Ukraine receives from Washington should have limits" - so yes, by a landslide American public is saying that help should be limited and rather significant minority says its too much.
Also gallup shows the trend is increasing - so by spring we may have more than 41% saying too much.
Russian losses are UA losses divided by 3 or so, at least.
1 company of tanks: 10-13 tanks
1 battalion of tanks: 31 tanks
Spending less =/= poor arms. Capitalist countries are feeding their arms industry CEOs, DPRK just makes them in-house.
While the European countries failed to supply 1 million artillery shells to Ukraine, most heavily Sanctioned North Korea has been able to supply the same to Russia. How ironic is that.
Because Europe focused on the economy and improving lives. That is why.
@@orionide4032lives of the rich that is. They also seemed to focus very heavily on preventing a peace deal for Ukraine
@@orionide4032 then the Europe should not have committed themselves towards this cause.
@@tempejklThe "peace deal" was a farce that absolutely no one would accept, nothing more than a falsehood for a talking point that idiots like yourself could waste people's time with.
They're about as much help as a minutemart !
Any day Covert Cabal uploads a video is a good day!
I bet those Korean tunnels are well lived in by now with everything in storage covered in dust
I have to say they are very smart to adapt their forces around what they have and not copy!
The fact DPRK 🇰🇵 is giving military aid to Russia 🇷🇺 speaks volumes of the current state of the Russian military situation.
Bro has never heard of „allies“ before
Well, north Korea has one of the biggest artillery munition stockpiles in the world, and artillery shells get expended pretty fast.
Even the US would be asking for help from south Korea if it were in Russia's situation
Russia is only purchasing artillery shells from NK, due to heavy usage in Ukraine. Russia is giving them body armor, missiles etc in return.
@@maximilianodelrioand all of NATO
@@maximilianodelrio exactly, its crazy that people genuinely think that Russia (the largest military on the planet) is actually on its last legs because less than 1/3rd its active duty are stationed in the donbas and even less than them are actually fighting
The Soviet army was a beast, the kpa is a joke.
Red army doctrine basicly is like if you have 10 people you just need to take good care 1 of them and other 9 is cannon fodder
No. Red Army doctrine is based on swift attack and mechanised weapons. Maybe in WW2 when things were desperate you are right, but no one was taken care of (Stalin and Zhukov stayed in Moscow when Germans were still close in order to protect the city)
@@tempejkl well they still do this ,, not openly ,,, you can see in Ukraine,, imagine if you have 1 Millions people and and 10% of them is competent that will be a hundred thousand people
@@megadwipayana5544 That’s not the red army though, that’s the Russian army. Things have changed since Soviet times, even though a lot of Soviet equipment is still used.
@@tempejkl they are same people mate the flag change but the doctrine not see how ez they used their comrade as a Cannon fodder ???? That exactly what the red army do also mass produce simple and cheap equipment for infantry that prove they still use that doctrine
What about shell production? 152mm shells are not high tech. They have been produced for 80 years. North Korea needs Russian oil and gas. . It decently can increase it's shell production dramatically. They have a work force, they can get all required components from Russians
The tide was never against Russia. This is a no brainer.
its hilarious to see the west essentially realize "maybe our enemies are not the cartoonishly incompetent villains we make them out to be and there is a lot more nuance to the situation than is usually let on
Like Russia?
Pride cometh before the fall, and there lot of Pride in the West. Hell, most people don't realize how militarized and obscenely disproportionate is SOUTH KOREAN artillery. In terms of shells they outproduce USA & EU put together.
Tbf they kinda are the only real threat to the west is china russia and north korea are pretty much an inconvenience
I guess you never heard of the Maginot line? Fixed fortress type installations have proved useless in modern warfare. Those Koreans will be entombed under their mountains. Yes they are incompetent villains without a doubt, but still very dangerous. That's the nuance. Or was it something else?
@@piotrd.4850 Pride in the west? You are looking for issues.
In short, North Korea is the following.
Mostly cannon fodder that would be hit the moment they moved via being spotted by special forces unit. Them having no real way to prevent strikes against them and being larger targets via infantry focus.
A few hard points type bunkers with artillery that would both predict where their artillery was and their range. These places would most likely have air sorties over them none stop and one by one be attacked by expeditionary air forces. Sieged until starved or out of relevance, since the war would end at some point.
Air force that would be wiped out instantly.
Mechanized miliary that would be too small to really do much and be a way to juicy target for air focused enemies like the West is. They would be driving without air cover and with AA that could maybe shoot down ww2 or 80s planes, aka they would in all practicality be defenseless.
And a few nukes that would probably hit Seoul or other cities.
Basically, a show parade, but mostly cannon fodder military and a few nukes.
They can sell old artilleri shells for goods and probably slow down their own stockpiling to serve exports, but NK being a long term solution for Russia seems less likely, I think.
Russia will also have the issue that even if they do get their ammunition sorted. Swarm attacks on weapon systems that are so small they do not really show up on their radars that well. Will remove key capabilities from operational areas to the point Ukraine might be given more air power since less would be shot down.
They provide the troops and China will provide the supplies.
Their solders look like a clone army 😂
Ukraine seem to have more and more problems getting new soldiers to the frontline. Sadly it seems like Ukraine will simply have to lose some of its territory officially. Or else they will simply run out of battle capable men who are ready to die. Men who were taken off the streets by force but don’t want to fight are not greatest soldiers.
Go away Moscal.
@@moritamikamikara3879What he said is easily verifiable. Reporting a fact doesn't make you a Russian stooge, it just means you're not high on copium. lol Ukrainians themselves are starting to say the same thing.
Ah yes, the latest Russian talking point. Ukraine might as well give up now because they obviously have no chance.
In case you haven't been paying attention, Russia's manpower situation is not much better. Sure, the Russian population is more than 3x that of Ukraine, but Putin is well aware of the fact that he cannot fully mobilize it. As long as it is Siberians and Muslims from the Stans dying Muscovites won't raise too much of a stink. Start sending more of those white kids from Moscow and St. Petersburg to be ground up at the front and then we'll see what happens. It is obvious that Putin understands this all too well. If he thought otherwise, Russia would have fully mobilized long ago.
How's the weather in St. Petersburg?
Cope harder russkie. You don't want to be sent to a Storm Z unit do you?
@@cruise_missile8387 "Easily verifiable" yeah through pro-Russian telegram videos showing always the same "Ukrainian" recruiter who walks like he has a stick up his behind. And always wearing a balaclava too.
Is it not just a paper tiger like russian army, how many rounds do you think a north korean soldiers fires when training a year? It relies on numbers and artillery, as the russians have shown it only gets you so far
Turn the tide? The conflict has been always a lost for Ukraine since the beginning, they have run out of everything to throw at Russians. But to be honest, the Ukraines chosed to elect an comedy to be their president and now they will pay the price.
You mean a formerly pro-Russian comedian who used to speak Russian elected as President on the votes of formerly pro-Russian Ukrainians. Like, let's forget that he was elected partly because of his platform of normalizing relationship with Russia even if it means making the LPR and DPR autonomous regions...
Because Zelensky promised Eastern Ukraine people all of his supposed “peaceful” policies. But of course, he never intended to keep his promise and proceed to went all in with his Russophobia’s policies in stead. So yes, he fooled them all
Also the number of votes coming from Eastern Ukraines although was significant, would never be enough to elect Zelensky to be the nation’s president.
So your information comes from where???
Wdym turn the tide?
The tide was always in our favor???
Here is a Random Fun Fact: It was Russia who saved The Union during the American Civil War as they sent their Navy to San Francisco and New York when England and France were just about to enter the war on the side of the Confederates since London created the Confederates. France was already in Mexico making a spear head movement to resupply the Confederates and to open up a Pacific Theatre and to create a port in California. England already amassed 11,000 troops and growing stationed at their Northern Confederacies border now called Canada ready to open a Northern Theatre to divert Union troops away from their Southern Confederacy then to attack The Unions naval blockade. The Union would have been completely destroyed and annexed by those two great powers leaving the Confederates to exist as either a puppet state of London or to be fully brought back into the fold of the British Empire.
London was already courting (threatening/bribing) other countries to get involved like Spain while Russia was in talks with Prussia to ally with incase London was to intervene.
Seeing all of this Tsar Alexander II wrote a letter to Queen Victoria saying “If you enter in this war it will be a casus belli for all out war with the Russian Empire”. The stage was set for the 1st World War and Russia stopped it.
There is also a memorial in San Francisco for the
hundreds of Russian sailors who came off their Asiatic fleet ships that died while helping the city put out a fire that threatened to lay waste to it during the War.
The Russian fleet also threatened to Shell Australian ports along with other British Pacific Colonies if Britain aided the Confederates. A confederate war ship spent a lot of time in Australian waters and was supported by the Australian public, some even signing on as crew members. This Confederate war ship laid waist to the US Pacific whaling fleet and is reported to have fired the last shot in the war
Russia also helped Thailand (Kingdom of Siam) maintain its sovereignty from being completely Partitioned/Annexed from the British and French around the same time. The very word Thai (ไทย) means 'free man' in the Thai language which is partially to thank to the Russians as they might have ended up being a colony or part of another country/colony if not for their intervention.
Russia wasn't going to do jack. Their navy was smashed in the Crimean War. The Confederacy wasn't worth enough for the British and French to invest in.
Well British are the worlds bad guys 😅
I have seen this exact same comment 2 other times. Fun fact, it's all garbage. Go do a little research and you will find out for yourself.
It was the Russian navy that staved off the Martian invasion of 2230 by shelling the moon base with unguided rockets that could not be hacked by the AI virus.
I was hoping for a guess at the number of artillery tubes NK is giving to Russia. Assuming it's few to none, I'd expect Russia to run out of barrels now, before shells.
Barrels are easier to manufacture then Shells, if you have a big domestic steel inddustry. Which russia coincidentially has. So i don't think we have to worry or hope about russian barrels.
You telling me north Korea could beat ukraine in a war
Why would Russia want NK help to turn the tide? They are very happy with the current tide.
Oh no!! Hanz brixx!!
Little man Putin having to go to North Korean fat man for military aid is hilarious 🤣
First thing first help your people before helping other
a company of 31 tanks?
Turn the tide in what exactly?
The tide is already very much in their favour.
Well, why? I mean USA did actually aid Ukraine too, so why?
Actual dictatorships enjoy efficiency, less oligarch, contractor, bidding, administration corruption.
😂😂😂 yeah that makes no sense when you know history
Yes, dictatorships are FAMOUS for having little to no corruption involved. lmfao
(NK’s long-stockpiled supplies???)
N.Korea could provide Bond villains.
All very well but it didn't even attempt to answer the question posed in the headline. Not up to your usual standard, I'm afraid.
The real question is, what did russia give in return for those shells?
vodka
They might spend 24% of their gdp on defence, but 24% of nothing is nothing, its all old crap, they still have steam trucks there
heard the NK artillery shells got a pretty high rate of duds
so basically ur saying... southkorea needs about 2 million ipv drones
i am quite afraid of insect sized drones just landing on somebodies forehead
What you heard was B S propaganda. Even Ukraine soldiers confirm that N K shells are good
@@hhkk6155 my information is based of NK shells fired at a south korean island, meaning all shells were NK and SK had radar traces, were able to count the shots and analyze each one while stating about a 10% failture rate...
ur telling me, ukrainian soldiers under artellery bombardment not knowing how many shells were launched, if russian or NK produced and how many actually worked as intended "confirm" ur data...
maybe the south koreans lied in order to humiliate kim but until i get some more information i rather trust SK
I guess this is why it has been called North Korea for so long. Anything that is capable of landing something in the US is taken seriously. Like with the invention of the jet engine, the world felt as if it was becoming smaller.
I wonder if DPRK will send an expeditionary force to help Russia in Ukraine so that their military gets combat experience and test their doctrine and equipment.
No. Those shells are over 40 years old and I'm shure those primers arec well beyond their time. They might egnite but only I'm estimating 10 percent of the time.
Alot of shells are stored without primers so you insert them before shipping. This practice massively expands the lifetime of shells. West and east both do this
@@alg7115 yeah, but if the primers are north Korean or the gunpowder, my claim still stands.
@@spyfan62591 primers are easy to manufacture quickly I suspect the Russians are putting fresh ones in the NK shells.
@@alg7115 the gunpoder? Still easy to change, if russia has any left which I'm sure they do.
You made many good points. So yeah I wish china didn't get involved for some unrealisticly alternate scenario logic nd the south and NATO won the Korean war even more now,
Am I the only one noticing Kim Jong lost some weight
Apparently the Juche idea is more powerful than the entire collective West in supplying artillery rounds
Although, it's not very strong in providing basic welfare for the people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
They are, they have the most in the world.