Given the life expectancy of the enemy soldiers in Ukraine, those Koreans will probably last 2 weeks. If they even make it to battle. Ukraine just hit a sixth training site of russkies with HIMARS.
Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life.
Just, be kind.
A dozen and a half reportedly have already.
Yes, I'm aware it's from the Urkainians.
NK is most likely just sending them to die so they have less mouths to feed.
Easiest way to do that is send them off to die.
This kind of feels like testing the waters. We already have desertion reports from NK soldiers. If most stay to die (and not just run away to a better life) they would most likely be willing to send more. NK seems to rather them just die, then have them find a better life outside their borders.
I read they are disguising themselves as russians from the far east, wearing russian uniforms and all that. But if this turns out to be true, and they gain concrete evidence of it, doesn't that open the door for other nations to put boots on the ground to assist Ukraine? At the time of proof that North Koreans are fighting for russia, it directly become a more international conflict.
It also shows russia is really desperate for soliders.
Some are special forces. Dunno what North Korean special forces are capable of, but they arent the bottom.
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Sometimes, the light of the moon is a key to other spaces. I've found a place where, for a night or two, the streets curve in unfamiliar ways. If I walk here, I might find insight, or I might be touched by madness.
You'd be surprised how fast a modern industrialized economy with access to reactors can potentially churn out low to mid yield miniaturezed nukes.
Miniaturization here just refers to "small enough for the bomb to be realistically dropped by a bomber or be mounted on a missile".
The issue is not so much with acquiring the fissile materials, at least not in the case of a country like Ukraine, but rather getting type of fissile material that you don't need trainloads of to achieve fission.
What's worse or even better, depending your perspective, is that Ukrainians have the institutional and technical knowledge required for this. They have been building nukes for the USSR for decades.
Yes it's a dispersed, rusty and old knowledge base, but it's there. Might be a bunch of 60-70 year old technicians and college professors now, but they aren't starting from scratch.
They are 20 yards from the finish line on a hundred yard dash. Yes, it's the hardest last 20 yards, but they can push through it.
Also if there's one thing we all collectively should have learned by now ...Do not underestimate a motivated Ukrainian with access to tools and raw materials.
I would prefer Ukraine not to build nukes while actively engaged in a war with Russia, but I can't fault them if they do.
Also, if I were Poland and South Korea, looking at American politics...I would have started a nuclear program yesterday.
The thing I'm most interested in with the NK story is, how the forces of the two countries communicate. I doubt a lot of Koreans speak Russian and vice versa, and not sure if either country teaches a lingua francy like English at school.
“There you stand, the good man doing nothing. And while evil triumphs, and your rigid pacifism crumbles to blood stained dust, the only victory afforded to you is that you stuck true to your guns.”