“Describe combat experience and difficulties”: WP studied a cache of documents of DPRK soldiers

“They describe combat experience and difficulties”: WP studied a cache of documents of DPRK soldiers Dmitry Usik

Journalists have gained access to North Korean documents from a cache that Ukrainian soldiers discovered in the Kursk region. These notes demonstrate the way of thinking of DPRK soldiers and how they adapt to the conditions of modern warfare.

This was reported by 24 Channel with reference to The Washington Post.

What was discussed in the notes of Koreans fighting in the Kursk region

American philanthropist Amed Han showed reporters a separate cache of North Korean documents that he said Ukrainian forces captured in Kursk and that he later translated.

The documents, written in Korean, show that North Korean troops are recording their combat experiences in detail and appear to be using battlefield experience to better understand new technologies. Koreans seem to learn from their mistakes.

In modern warfare, where reconnaissance and drone strikes are conducted in real time, failure to break up combat teams into smaller units of two or three can result in significant casualties from enemy drones and artillery, one of the documents says.

The documents found in the cache “critically describe the behavior of some North Korean soldiers, saying they killed several Ukrainian soldiers who tried to surrender, a tactic that appears to have angered the Ukrainians and ultimately 'prolonged the fight.'”

Ukrainian special forces showed journalists a list of 23 Korean and Russian phrases and handwritten New Year letters that the Koreans wrote to Kim Jong-un. The Wassington Post notes that one of the dead North Korean fighters was found to have a scrap of paper with the phrases “Resistance is futile,” “Surrender,” “You are all surrounded,” printed in Korean with rough Russian transliteration.

List of phrases used by Koreans in Kursk region/The Wassington Post

They were also shown bulletproof vests, equipment, first aid kits, military IDs, a shovel, a Ukrainian-made knife, and two modern Russian assault rifles, which were confiscated from dead Korean soldiers.

“The Russians were much worse equipped. The Russians were trying to show off to the North Koreans,” says one of the soldiers.