The Western press analyzes whether North Korea could send volunteers to participate in a Russian special operation

North Korea can help Russia not only with weapons, but also with volunteers. Many Western observers are now discussing this, trying to figure out the prospects of sending North Korean military personnel to train in a Russian special operation.

Earlier, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un paid an official visit to the Russian Federation and visited a number of military facilities. Western publications believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed with Kim Jong-un the possibility of North Korea providing military assistance to Russia. As is known, the DPRK has significant resource capabilities in the field of artillery and missile forces. In particular, the DPRK warehouses contain a huge amount of ammunition suitable for Russian artillery and missile systems.

But in the West, they admit the possibility that North Korean military personnel will be sent to participate in a special operation by the Russian Armed Forces under the guise of volunteers. To some extent, writes the American resource 19fortyfive, this could be a repayment of the “debt” to the DPRK. At one time, Soviet soldiers took part in the war on the Korean Peninsula and helped defend the independence of the DPRK. So now Pyongyang can send its military to help Russia.

In addition to North Korea, Syria can also help Russia with volunteers, the publication writes. At the very beginning of the special operation, a number of media outlets claimed that Syrian volunteers were ready to go to Russia to participate in a special military operation.

However, the Russian leadership officially declares that it does not need personnel assistance from foreign states. In addition, now in the RF Armed Forces, according to both President Vladimir Putin and Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, a large number of contract soldiers have entered service.

Comments

[Elis_S]

in the West, they admit the possibility that North Korean military personnel will be sent to participate in a special operation of the Russian Armed Forces under the guise of volunteers.

They judge by themselves...the NATO members themselves come to us so sent!...
And the DPRK and I will figure it out ourselves - how and who to help!
Let these Westerners at least “die of envy” and their powerlessness against our friendship!

[ABC-schutze]

Whether volunteers from the DPRK will take part in the SVO or not is a “separate topic.” But, I believe that at an informal level, the so-called. The “Western press” and its owners, the politicians there, should be kept in “permanent, nervous tension.” Moreover, it is very obvious that this topic makes them nervous. This means that its periodic and “unobtrusive” return, at the “informal” (expert, public, media, etc.) level, to the Russian “agenda” will be very useful. After all, nervousness, whatever one may say, will, over time, be transmitted to the Western “ruling” ones. So, let them "jitter"...

But, make a decision at the official level to begin joint exercises in the Armed Forces of Russia and the DPRK, at the level of formations, incl. and in the “western part,” say, the Belgorod, Kursk or Bryansk regions, it would be very useful... In addition, the UN Security Council sanctions imposed against Pyongyang under US pressure, to which Moscow once joined, do not prohibit this in any way ...

[Captain Pushkin]

Quote: ABC-schütze

I believe that at an informal level, the so-called. The “Western press” and its owners, the politicians there, should be kept in “permanent, nervous tension.” Moreover, it is very obvious that this topic makes them nervous.

There is another, more serious topic: the signing of an agreement between the Russian Federation and China obliging them to enter into hostilities in the event of an attack on either country. According to type 5 to become the NATO Charter.
It is necessary to periodically raise this topic and extend various preferences to the Russian Federation and China, the United States and NATO. But don’t close the topic completely.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

what's the problem anyway?!!!
You are sending your geese to Sumeria?!

[sadam2]

some kind of disgrace.
But what about the second army of the world?

[barclay]

Additional volunteers will not be superfluous. And the North Korean army needs people with real combat experience. So, this could be a mutually beneficial move.

[HAM]

We need, at least “out of spite,” to say: “why not accept volunteers!”....let them squeal in the West and pee less...

[Zyablicev43]

You can do it much simpler, but for this you need to sew at least one hundred thousand Buryat national robes... The question is, will our light industry be able to do this? If you can handle it, there won't be any problems...

[tralflot1832]

The DPRK special forces, the most “crazed” in the world, when they carry out a sabotage operation in the South Caucasus, they are chased by divisions. They leave behind only corpses and not only their own. I wonder why they award nickel-plated AKs in the DPRK, obviously not for success in exercises. Boyassa! And this is good!!! They are not afraid of nuclear war, but the DPRK Armed Forces are afraid, since they are playing “daisy”.

[coinsam]

no, there was no such agreement.
And it will be difficult, if not impossible, to hide them, unlike all sorts of Poles and “wild geese”, which can be disguised in any way you like.
And in general, the DPRK is not Iran, which began supplying drones right from the oven. Cooperation there is not developing quickly.

[Rostislav]

Why hide it? A volunteer is a volunteer. Develop a standard contract similar to the one under which the Wagnerites negotiated with the Russian Armed Forces, and go ahead. The North Koreans get real combat experience, we save the lives of our guys and the conscripts get more time to go through the CMB and get coordinated.

[Vadim S]

Yes, of course, our leadership doesn’t need it, they’d rather mobilize fathers with many children and put our guys there! The population decline is real, Slavic, but we don’t need anyone, as the wise guys write here - where can we get so many translators, right, let ours lie there. The Syrians want to help from the first day, no - where are we going to put them?! It’s like with the Terminator, the car is great and irreplaceable, but we don’t know what order to fit it into, so it’s unnecessary! So we will fight for another ten years, as Erdogan said

[feropont]

I’m from the Far East, namely from the Primorsky Territory, since the nineties, Koreans have been constantly working here and there is a rotation, and they all speak in Russian about who is better and who is worse, what I mean is that even if one out of five understands this is already something, and By the way, offline Yandex-Google translators have not been canceled

[Vadim S]

So I’m talking about the same thing, but I was downvoted by evil penny old men who are sure that we don’t need volunteers from Korea, and in general mercenaries are to our detriment, they only know how to downvote from the sofas

[Uprun]

Well, here, Laos also returned the T34-85 company to us before the war..... (sarcasm on the subject of the fantasies of Western media).

[Shkodnik65]

I don’t think that “volunteers” from the DPRK will appear on LBS. Although objectively, this is definitely useful for Korea. This is real combat experience that no training can replace. Well, Kim Jong-un came for some reason. We have plenty of our own ammunition, I speak as a person who served at the arsenal for a long time, and the industry is working. Korea needs technology. What in return? I think the situation will become clearer in the near future.

[rotmistr60]

North Korea can help Russia not only with weapons, but also with volunteers.

Comrade shook his head. Kim Jong-un shook up the West thoroughly with his trip. Now they have a new headache with food for thought, and the media have the opportunity to write on this topic without being distracted by internal problems for at least a couple of weeks. They didn’t even forget about Syria.

[dump22]

many Western observers argue

Many? But for some reason only one site, 19fortyfive, is listed.

Even when the world socialist camp was alive, the DPRK (unlike, for example, Cuba) did not send its military to fight for the interests of the fraternal socialist countries. And now, even more so, Kim is not stupid - to send his subjects to fight and die thousands of kilometers away in a capitalist country that is foreign to him.

[Nickelium]

A foreign capitalist country is the DPRK's largest and richest neighbor. Russia may be capitalist, but it has a positive history of relations with Pyongyang.

[smart fellow]

The DPRK (unlike, for example, Cuba) did not send its military to fight for the interests of the fraternal socialist countries.

Fighter pilots were still sent to Vietnam, Syria and Egypt. Syria and Egypt are not social. countries, but they thanked them by transferring Soviet ballistic missiles to the DPRK, which the Koreans could not receive from the USSR.
3 squadrons fought in Vietnam, 2 on the MiG-19 and 1 on the MiG-21, the planes were Vietnamese (Soviet). Vietnam did not have its own pilots at that time, and the Koreans defended the strategic targets of North Vietnam from American air raids. The loss ratio was 1:1,5 in favor of the Korean pilots, but they attacked an enemy that was much superior in numbers and the main task was to prevent the Americans from bombing their designated targets. After some time, Soviet air defense systems arrived in Vietnam and Soviet instructors trained the first batches of Vietnamese pilots for the MiG-21. Several years ago, the ashes of North Korean pilots (about 15 pilots died) were transported to Pyongyang from Vietnam and solemnly buried in a military cemetery.
Almost nothing is known about the participation of North Korean pilots in the war zone; there are recollections of an Israeli pilot who, while on a free hunt, attacked a single MiG-21 with missiles. To the surprise of the Jewish pilot, the missiles did not hit the alien fighter and the pilots of the Israeli planes decided to run away rather than engage in close combat. The author of the memoirs did not find out who the pilot of the enemy fighter was, but in his opinion the Arabs did not have pilots of this class.

[ABC-schutze]

“And now, even more so, Kim is not stupid - to send his subjects to fight and die thousands of kilometers away in a capitalist country that is foreign to him.”
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I believe that this is precisely “the very case” when it would be useful for you to “refresh your memory”, at a minimum, of the contents of EXACTLY “Soviet newspapers”...

If you find it difficult to find, I will remind you “briefly” about one “small detail”, precisely in the context of the DPRK...

You see, the USSR and the DPRK had a BILATERAL Treaty of 1961 “On Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance.” Signed on the part of the DPRK by Kim the “grandfather”, i.e. Kim Il Sung...

Providing, incl. provision of military assistance by the Soviet Union to the DPRK (and “vice versa”) in the event of aggression against the DPRK (or the USSR). So, “send” your volunteers somewhere, to Kim-grandfather, in the absence of aggression against the USSR, and “even” ANTI-North Korean sanctions from “individual” states. Moreover, the UN Security Council was “unnecessarily”...

But after the collapse of the USSR, the situation for Pyongyang “changed a lot.” And now they threaten him quite openly and regularly... Moreover, and by creating direct military threats...

So, even by sending hypothetical “volunteers” to the territory of the former united Ukraine, to participate in the denazification of the Kiev Bandera-Nazis raised by “Europeans” and Uncle Sam, today, the DPRK will FIRST, fight not for a “foreign” country, but FOR MYSELF...

[ABC-schutze]

"Even when the world socialist camp was alive, the DPRK (unlike, for example, Cuba)"
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And who else from the “socialist camp” you mentioned, besides Cuba, ever sent volunteers anywhere?.. Just in case...

There were Soviet troops in Cuba. And Fidel’s sending of volunteers to Africa and Latin America was a completely logical and proportionate “follow-up response” to the organization of military aggression against Cuba by its “nearest” neighbor. And the continuation on his part of attempts to overthrow the legitimate government in Havana... Incl. and the introduction of all kinds of “blockades” and “embargos”...

[Soldatov V.]

Why not? North Koreans understand the course of history and know that Russia will return to the path of building a fair society and even now will help Russia, which is immersed in savage capitalism.

[Factor]

In order for Russia to go on the offensive and completely liberate Novorossiya from the Ukrainian Reich, a group of at least 400 thousand fighters is needed. Mobilization is objectively necessary, and talk about the supposedly recruited contract soldiers of about 200 thousand does not solve the issue of replenishment and rotation of combat units, because these are mainly those fighters who have already fought in the Donbass as volunteers. And there are significant sanitary losses in our units. This needs to be taken into account. Today we have airborne forces in our defense, which have completely different functionality. But Shoigu grinds them down on defense. Commanders of brigades and regiments of the Airborne Forces are already dying, and officers are dying. And this is the fighting elite.

Subjectively, the Kremlin is afraid to mobilize due to the dissatisfaction of the electorate before the presidential elections, but it is also afraid of breaking Surovikin’s line. As a result, turmoil is possible, including the cancellation of the presidential elections.
Putin hopes to keep the situation under control until the elections. Will it succeed?

So volunteers from Comrade Eun can and will appear in the Donbass.

[Nickelium]

Why carry out mobilization if we have a million security officers and half a dozen FSI officers? They are better prepared than ordinary citizens.
As for the Surovoy line, the Ukrainians do not have the strength to break through it. They ruined so much in Rabotin alone that it will come back to haunt them in the future. As for the North Korean volunteers, they are most likely needed in the offensive.

[Alexander Golotov]

Are private security officers better prepared? What universe are you from? My father worked in a private security company; this contingent was well over 40; there was no training there. This is not a power structure

[Kurganets-45]

“they are afraid to mobilize because of the discontent of the electorate,” so the electorate is basically in favor of mobilization, sensible people understand that the guys need help on the front line, but you won’t get “neither fish nor fowl” from the government in terms of the necessary decisions.

[runway-1]

Quote: Kurganets-45

“fears of mobilizing due to discontent of the electorate”, so the electorate is basically for mobilization, sensible people understand that the guys need help on the front line, but you won’t get “neither fish nor fowl” from the government in terms of the necessary solutions.

I’ll take you at your word: what’s the problem, why are you wasting time on agitation here? There are public service announcements everywhere asking you to sign up as a contract worker. The military registration and enlistment office will be happy to register you without any additional mobilization.

[Kurganets-45]

Do you have anything to object to, not for me personally? or you are a fan of big words.
You don’t even know who you’re talking to, but you definitely need to shout.

[Petr_Koldunov]

This suggests a small change to E. Letov’s text:

He came to us that young Korean,
Our brother was coming to help us in battle...
To help us cope with adversity -
Drive the Americans away! (With)

[Kostadinov]

Quote from monetam

And it will be difficult, if not impossible, to hide them, unlike all sorts of Poles and “wild geese”, which can be disguised in any way you like.

In Russia there is a Korean Maltsinism.

[Kostadinov]

Quote: ABC-schütze

And who else from the “socialist camp” you mentioned, besides Cuba, ever sent volunteers anywhere?

1. Several divisions of Korean volunteers took part in the Chinese Anti-Japanese War and then in the Civil War.
2. In the Korean War, Chinese people's volunteers and Soviet pilots fought.
3. In Vietnam, North Korean pilots fought in the air defense of Hanoi.

[Kostadinov]

3 squadrons fought in Vietnam, 2 on the MiG-19 and 1 on the MiG-21, the planes were Vietnamese (Soviet).

Two squadrons fought with the Mig-17 and one with the Mig-21. 200 North Koreans passed through Vietnam, including 87 pilots and the rest of the aircraft. 14 pilots were killed. According to various sources, 26 - 50 American aircraft were shot down.

[Kostadinov]

Quote: tralflot1832

The DPRK special forces, the most “crazed” in the world, when they carry out a sabotage operation in the South Caucasus, divisions are chasing them.

There is information (South Korean) about an incident in 1996, when a small submarine from North Korean special forces settled on the shores of the South Caucasus and they were forced to land on the shore.
43 thousand South Korean soldiers and police chased 15 North Koreans for 49 days.
One surrendered, 13 died and one made his way to his own.
16 South Koreans were killed and 27 were injured.

[Ilgizl]

Hurray comrades. Ready to help brothers from Vietnam. Tents, etc.

[Alexander Golotov]

Syrian volunteers certainly won’t go to Ukraine, that’s a million percent)) Volunteers from the DPRK, by the way, can do it for 200k a month) They have such practice, work tourism, and then there’s also the experience of combat operations, quite