The DPRK continues to support Russia in the war against Ukraine
North Korea suffers significant losses in Russia's war against Ukraine. According to the latest data, the number of dead and wounded North Korean soldiers has exceeded three thousand soldiers, but the DPRK plans to provide Russia with new weapons and continue to support them.
In turn, the Russian Federation is trying to hide the identities of foreign soldiers by issuing them false documents.
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DPRK to transfer new weapons to Russia
North Korea plans to transfer additional troops and military equipment to Russia, in particular, kamikaze drones, which will be used in the war against Ukraine.
According to South Korean intelligence, the DPRK is preparing to rotate or increase the number of troops in Russia, as well as transfer 240-mm rocket launchers and 170-mm self-propelled artillery units. .
The Joint Chiefs of Staff explain this move by North Korea's attempts to gain practical experience in waging war and modernize its weapons system. to a direct military conflict on its border.
It is worth noting that Defense Express reported that another echelon of weapons was recently recorded in the Tyumen region, which may include Pukguksong-2 medium-range ballistic missiles.
The Pukguksong-2 is a land-based variant of the Pukguksong-1 ballistic missile, which was originally designed for submarines. It is a solid-fuel, two-stage missile about 9 meters long and 1.5 meters in diameter. contradictory.
According to Defense Express experts, North Korea may seek to test its missile systems directly on the battlefield.
“Payment” for military reinforcement
Russia spent up to $6 billion on the supply of weapons and the dispatch of North Korean soldiers, in addition, the payment for the military reinforcement of the Russian Federation was made in barter and food.
According to analysts at the Hankuk Institute for Foreign Studies, the cost of weapons supplied by the DPRK to Russia ranges from $1.72 billion to $5.5 billion. Payment was made both in cash and by barter – oil and food.
In addition to weapons, Pyongyang receives payment for sending soldiers. According to the study, even with minimal calculations, Kim Jong-un can earn from $143 million to $572 million annually for the participation of five to twenty thousand North Korean soldiers in military operations on the side of Russia.
Western and Ukrainian intelligence agencies indicate that about 11 thousand North Korean soldiers have already arrived in the Kursk region. This means that Kim Jong-un received about $315 million for the first contingent of troops.
The Wall Street Journal noted that the DPRK is actively supplying Russia with weapons for the war in Ukraine, for which it receives much-needed financial support, oil, and, possibly, access to nuclear technology. According to information from Western officials, the DPRK will probably receive from the Russian government. access to nuclear technology.
The occupiers are actively using North Korean weapons systems, such as modernized KN-25 rocket launchers. Russia also receives military equipment from the DPRK.
“The North Korean missiles are made to order,” said Damien Spleeters of Conflict Armament Research.
In turn, Russia plans to transfer MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters to North Korea in exchange for soldiers that the DPRK will provide to support Russian forces in the combat zone. Receiving the Su-27 and MiG-29 will significantly increase the technical level of the DPRK aviation.
Experts suggest that the number of aircraft that Russia is ready to transfer will depend on how ready it is to share its aviation technologies with Pyongyang.
North Korea is losing its soldiers
According to The Times, there are currently about 11,000 North Korean soldiers in Kursk ready to engage in combat.
As a result of unsuccessful assaults in Kursk, the Russian Federation is losing many North Korean soldiers.
A striking example of this is the assault along the left flank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense on December 15. According to the Pentagon, young Koreans were dying in the hundreds.
“Ghastly photographs of wax corpses lying in the snow were quickly published online. One video showed a Russian soldier trying to burn the face of a dead North Korean to hide his ethnicity,” the publication says.
Also, Yonhap News News, citing South Korean military intelligence, writes that a new report from the South Korean military, which was released on December 23, states that North Korea has sent thousands of soldiers to Russia, of which approximately 1,100 have already died.
Earlier, Reuters reported that at least a hundred North Korean soldiers stationed in Russia have died. In addition, a thousand soldiers were wounded during fierce battles with Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that, according to preliminary data, the number of killed and wounded North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region already exceeds 3 thousand people. He cited this data after the report of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky, who informed about the Kursk operation.
Zelensky emphasized that it is important for the world to understand that the risk of destabilization around the Korean Peninsula and in neighboring regions and waters increases proportionally to the growth of cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang.
Russia hides the identities of North Korean soldiers
In Kurshchyna, Russian soldiers burn the faces of North Korean soldiers.
At a meeting of the European Council in Brussels, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that in this way the occupiers are trying to hide traces of the presence of foreign troops in their army.
In addition, the command of the Russian army, in order to hide the presence of North Korean soldiers, issues them false documents.
As reported by the Special Operations Forces, the military IDs do not have all the seals, photographs, and the names and patronymics are presented in the Russian manner. The birthplace of these soldiers is indicated as populated areas of the Russian Republic of Tuva.
The signatures of the owners of military IDs made in Korean indicate the forgery, which testifies to the real origin of these soldiers.
DPRK infantry is not the main threat
According to Ukrainian intelligence, the main threat to Russia's military cooperation with North Korea is not the infantry, but the artillery. We are talking about the M-1989 Koksan self-propelled artillery units, which are used by Russian troops in various parts of the front, as well as for shelling peaceful frontline cities and villages.
According to the intelligence representative, the DPRK servicemen are concentrated in small groups of 20-30 people in one place, from where they are thrown into desperate assaults. Ignorance of the terrain, the realities of war and the Russian language further complicates their situation, because the Koreans often do not understand that they are being sent to certain death. As a result, hundreds of North Korean soldiers were killed and wounded.
Putin turned the war into a training ground
Commenting on Kim Jong-un's readiness to hand over attack drones to Russia. Head of the National Security and Defense Council Center for Political Studies Andrey Kovalenko noted that Putin has turned part of Russia's territory into a testing ground.
This conclusion can be drawn that the Russian Federation is actively testing various weapons in battles and shelling of Ukrainian territories.
In particular, Kovalenko noted that South Korea should actively help Ukraine.
“Since the exchange of combat experience and drone technology will create problems on the Korean Peninsula in the future,” concluded the head of the National Security and Defense Council Center for Political Studies.
As the National Security and Defense Council noted earlier, the reputation of a “terrible dictator with a nuclear button and a large army,” which Kim Jong-un and his propagandists have been building for many years, is suffering from the commanders of the Russian army. They don't value the lives of North Korean soldiers.
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