Smart POW, says all the right things, not to get beaten up again, and to gain medical treatment. He did not give anything vital away.

I'm quite sure I could a Korean in any city in the world. Then I pay him a few bucks to do my video and poof, instant propaganda ready to go. This video is still pure BS. Looks like they got these guys from the slum part of town.

there's absolutely NO North Korean troops involved in the SMO.

I assume they have been captured with some incriminating identifications? dog tags perhaps? or some kind of documents they were carrying? And why is this such a remarkable thing to discover now given that we have western so-called "mercenaries" fighting for Ukraine for the past 3 years?

They are still getting better but total BS not sure what they are even trying to prove anymore... they said 20,000 Koreans and here I see proof of nothing related to their lies. Bet he speaks russian or some other bs lol

100% fake. Actors Not wanting to return to North Korea? Dont make me laugh yeah he has no family.

South Korean failed actors hired by desperate ukraine

20,000 Columbians, dozens of Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Turkey, Japan, and South Korea, Brazil, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, and French, Hundreds of Georgians, Polish, Canadians, Brits, and Yankees, et cetera... } WAIT RUSSIA HAS IMAGINARY NORTH KOREANS?!?! WAIT THEY ALSO HAVE ONE REAL ONE!!? HOW DARE THEY!!!!!! Edit: after how bad they lied... its probably fake @DPA i mean the lies were so so so bad Even if true like i said eventually they might find an actual north korean lol...

They are instructors

I still think its fake, they just got a couple of Korean dudes to act.

they are too fat to be north koreans ... even the high ranking generals in NK is not that fat with winter clothing, if that was KiM they caught i might believe.

North korea should send as many soldiers as they want

It looks like south Korean propaganda

Not to sound like a conspiracy nutter, but he looks kind of CGI or maybe because he's young & uses korean skincare

Exactly *HOW* would significant numbers of North Koreans and their equipment get to Russia without the support of China? Dubious.

I have never heard a journalist say "the source is not important" Like how do you not check the source of where you get the information? How can someone even believe it if you don't even verify the source? What?

WW3 being fought in Ukraine pitching US and UK and allies against Russia and allies...

These guys are actors,man 😂😂😂 You must be dumb af to believe Western propaganda.

Lets say there are NK troops in Kursk region. Why does it matter? Ukraine has over FIFTY countries sending them everything from cash to warm bodies

BTW. All military personnel training in Russia gets to wear Russian uniforms. And they are inside Russia, as you said, so this is a big distraction.

Ukie propaganda succeeded in making this non issue be discussed over and over again. They are pretty good at this, like their Anglo colonial overlords.

100k Koreans live in Russia, and he seems to understand Russian questions; also I do not believe he did not know he was fighting Ukraine.

Good Job! This is the first actual confirmation, there have been claims for months but no definite evidence. All the previous claims of troops could have been from the various Asiatic groups living in Russia.

Even if true, a big, fat, so what? A nothingburger with extra cheese. That's it.

That is RUSSIAN from YAKUTIA, not NORTH KOREAN and the sound is dubbbing

So we're seriously considering believing a regime that venerates the ideology of WWII Germany.

This belongs on DPA News, I no longer opt-in to notifications from DPA so I almost missed this one.

Dose anyone actually care?? ... Korea and russia have military agreement... Them fighing in russia in kusk is diffrent then if they were fighting in ukraine... And ukraine is aloud to have wester military fighting for them but russia is not aloud ?... I honestly wouldent be suprised if this was staged either its looking less likely but again its irelivant

You underestimated the mental and physical toughness of the North Koreans

LMAO. 01:23 You can see his mouth is not synced with the words.

I will translate. He said: Ok yeah in really poor Korean. The translator spoke Korean and said you have been on the front since January the third. He responded: Yeah Ok. At 4:38 he said: Is it possible? Also, in poor Korean. I am calling BS. The poor guy is terrified for his life. And probably tired after having to learn those phrases. Korean? No idea. At least he might live and get to go home unlike most of the other prisoners Ukraine deals with.

South korean and north korean have different korean language???

I will translate. He said: Ok yeah in really poor Korean. The translator spoke Korean and said you have been on the front since January the third. He responded: Yeah Ok. At 4:38 he said: Is it possible? Also, in poor Korean. I am calling BS. The poor guy is terrified for his life. And probably tired after having to learn those phrases. Korean? No idea. At least he might live and get to go home unlike most of the other prisoners Ukraine deals with.

It's like convincing the people that US made it to the Moon

Hollywood style

fake news. They probably got some South Korean guy lying in bed making up those statements. If it is real, they would've gotten pictures and videos of NK troops in the field.

The Korean voice interrogating is a South Korean NIS agent

South Korean mercenaries? Could be anything.

DPA relies on open source yet despite this being mana from heaven for such organizations as the BBC and ABC Australia they're not touching this video which raises questions as to the authenticity of the story. They seem reluctant to put their reputations on the line and report this a fact. The whole story is voiced in a third party claims without verification leading to the question as to why they're so coy about verification as though they know they're spreading propaganda.

How do you know he is DPRKorean?

Why did they disguise the Ukrainian voices even the Interpreter's only when he speaks Ukrainian? 😂 Still think it's a doctored clown show. Why did it take them over a week to release this? Did Lex Friedman's ai translation bot have any play in this?

There are ethnic Korean citizens of the RF, right?

People from other countries fighting for ukraine. Nothing we haven't seen before.

Umm, this seems totally over dubbed at least from the questioner's side, and the ambience of all voices doesn't match the room, the echoes and reverberations of voices do not match. And over dubbing this fellow isn't that hard considering the amount of opportunity for talking there is. Anecdotal, but having seen a lot of overdubbed actors even a person can do this, and it is _actually_ even easier for existing computer models to do. (BTW, current tech 'AI' used in film industry will do a result that most humans can't tell.) Unconvinced. Too little to go on and too much audio editing present.

While indeed ethnic Korean exist in Russia doesn't mean this guy's is DPRK troops, they can keep producing this cheap propaganda all they want just to prove it but until the POW speaking northern dialect which south Korean didn't use it by their citizens it's all fake and the guys in this video could be south Korean paid actor.

It's not Ai but possible that it's voice over

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"Prigozhin denied the Kremlin’s claims that Russia is fighting NATO in Ukraine and questioned whether there are actually Nazis in Ukraine as the Kremlin constantly claims. Prigozhin stated that Russia is fighting “exclusively with Ukrainians” who are equipped with NATO-provided equipment and some “russophobic” mercenaries who voluntarily support Ukraine - but not NATO itself. Prigozhin also noted that Russian officials most likely knew that NATO would offer Ukraine military aid, because “it is ridiculous to think that when [Russia] decided to conduct this special military operation it did not account for NATO’s help to Ukraine.” Prigozhin noted that he is unsure about the “denazification” objectives in Ukraine, because he does not know if there are “Nazis” in Ukraine. Prigozhin also noted that Russia will ”demilitarize” Ukraine only when all of the Ukrainian military is destroyed, claiming that this effort is ongoing, but that it is unclear if it will be successful. Prigozhin stated that Russia can avoid an exhausting protracted war by deciding now which borders it wants to capture. Prigozhin also called on the Russian military and media to stop underestimating Ukrainian forces and engaging in internal conflicts. Prigozhin effectively rejected the Kremlin’s pre-war and post-war claims that Russia needed to defend itself against a NATO threat in Ukraine and undermined the necessity and probability of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s stated maximalist objectives for this invasion." bcfausa.org/no-nazis-in-ukraine-no-nato-says-russian-mercenary-leader-prigozhin/ Of course, it didn't end well!

Not enough info to say they're DPRK.