Captured Russian POWs describe North Korean troops in war against Ukraine | Radio Free Asia (RFA)

[@kayschofield3588]

Innocent men fighting for dictators, its really sad. Imagine being born in North Korea, having the most horrendous life and then having to fight a war for another dictator. I don't think we really realize how blessed we are. 😢

[@MR619Can]

innocence is lost once they joined the fight. willingly or not.

[@hexusmexus6971]

​@@MR619Canagreed

[@JohnJ-p7o]

They think they are living the high life. They think only them have food. They think Americans eat seagulls and pigeon. While they eat grass full of worms. They are completely brainwashed. Soon Russian will be too.

[@jamesmayo3827]

Fighting for a bull shit lie. Isn't very wise iether.

[@Havoc-bc6oy]

Basically South Korea has nothing to worry about

[@jackoblllllllll]

Apart from the rockets

[@psuportland4078]

Hmmmm....what about NK 's. ICBMs/SLBMs uhhhhh????????? Both of'em are very very insolent.............................................

[@histriamagna1014]

@@psuportland4078 Commie ?

[@HuiJi-r2w]

They still have something to worry about. North Korea sent the useless soldiers (if they were even soldiers before sent) since they were expendable for him.

[@AmirAlami-ey3xx]

Yeah nice misinformation buddy

[@Patrick-yh5yd]

They are only trained to march really cool in front of the Boss.

[@hughjass1044]

There is an ironic truth to what you say. I've heard numerous analysts over the years say that the best that NK has are the ones you see on parade; both in terms of personnel and equipment and even they are questionable. The reality is evidently, that the average NK soldier - the ones you never get to see - are no better off than the average NK citizen -impoverished, malnourished, mistreated, unmotivated, poorly equipped with incomplete and threadbare uniforms and largely left to fend for themselves. The bulk of their gear too is old, outdated, clapped out, rusted out and barely serviceable. Beyond their special forces and their intelligence services, there's not much to the NK military beyond raw numbers.

[@ww2remembered983]

Yep, preferably to Bee Gee's music.

[@joekev27]

"They shoot at anything that flies" sounds about right considering i saw a video where a north Korean troop shoot another troop trying to take a drone out.

[@Commissar_4735]

i watched that video, honestly the guy has no option either try to shoot down the drone or risk being hit, fear also played a role.

[@ElenaShares]

@@Commissar_4735 But he said that the Koreans "without brains" and also don't care if the drones are of Russia or Ukraine, they just shoot at everything that flies...

[@romerojuniorcarvalho6343]

DEGUELO DESSES KOREANOS

[@DONOSTIA45]

You truly talk crap!!

[@John-j4y8h]

You think Ukrainians haven’t done this? It’s war bud. The Koreans are being heavily targeted right now due to coverage

[@akedahlstrom2922]

Nobody wants the music.!!!!

[@ElenaShares]

The video says that Korean soldiers train separately, no theory, but they run a lot; and on the front they don't hide themselves during the day, totally in the open at everything that flies without discrimination, and it is safer to be further away from them

[@DONOSTIA45]

Strange the US "world super power" Couldn't defeat them during the Korean war in the 1950s, when they only had the most primitive weapons at their disposal. You take on the North Koreans at your peril.!!

[@maverickblackhorse3068]

@@DONOSTIA45An armistice is a formal agreement between warring parties to stop fighting. It is a temporary suspension of hostilities and is not necessarily the end of a war. The Korean Armistice Agreement was signed on July 27, 1953, ending the Korean War and establishing the boundary between North and South Korea. It is why there is a North and South Korea; consequently, the demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was created by pulling back forces 1.2 miles (2 km) on either side of the boundary. The DMZ is the world's most fortified international border. Since 1953, the hermit kingdom and its military have had almost no practical combat experience. Placing such ineptness with battle hardened troops is crazy. Russia is sacrificing needlessly the lives of too many men with such a stupid endeavor. At the same time the Norks show their incompetence to NATO. We now know exactly what we would be dealing with, how to wipe them out should war resumed on the Korean Peninsula.

[@RushOrbit]

@@DONOSTIA45 It doesn't matter what happened in the 50's, what matters is what's happening now. North Korea is out there looking like the village idiots. Even the Ukrainians and the Russians are taking a step back together on this.

[@herbertdiaz4318]

Backed by Chinese troops back then.

[@Beau_Caw_Kay]

@@DONOSTIA45almost all of the troops that pushed the US back were Chinese forces though. If there was no China human tsunami surprise tactic then there wouldn’t be 2 Korean countries currently as North Korea lost soundly. It became a stalemate as both China and the US really didn’t want to keep contributing to a “lost cause” after the Chinese and N Korean forces were again pushed back to what is now the DMZ and both backing countries kinda dipped out. It was a weird ending to the fighting but yea. Technically no country lost that war as it was never truly resolved.

[@gargarcomedy]

I neded a microscope to read the tiny writing😂

[@davidball5002]

I gave up trying to read it after 10 seconds

[@JohnnyRep-u4e]

You need a microscope to find the NorKors.

[@douglaswesson2458]

Lol, yup. That's why I'm looking in the comment section.

[@reneestuart-w2y]

moved too fast too

[@iaon652]

What about 40 inch screen, like I do.

[@isaiahnavarro8268]

If you think about it Koreans are basically time travelers considering they don’t know much about modern warfare

[@DONOSTIA45]

Now. . Just where do you get that from?

[@roberthaworth8991]

@@DONOSTIA45 I think the implication was that the NK military art is frozen in time -- replicating that of their last major engagement, back in the early '50s. In NK it's probably a crime, or at least career-ending, to suggest "improvements" or "updates" to the tactics and operational art practiced by their grandfathers in the Liberation War.

[@HuiJi-r2w]

@@DONOSTIA45North Koreans, especially in poverty, have no access to the internet besides North Korean propaganda. They are shut out from the outside world and aren’t given access to much technology.

[@RushOrbit]

@@DONOSTIA45 They haven't been exposed to warfare in half a century, and things have evolved a changed a lot since then. Russia, Ukraine, all other European countries, and the US, they've all kept up.

[@billaveda6408]

😄😄😄😄😄😄

[@itsericzhou]

when you consider technology that the army soldier has access to, the north koreans are actually pretty well trained for a conflict that matches their technology. however, that is decades behind NATO, russia, china, and many other countries. crossing an open field a few km behind the contact line would be ok for them, but against fpv drones, thats just asking for mass casualties

[@PandaPanda-ud4ne]

To be fair, FPV drones are so new and terrifying, that even western armies would have problems dealing with them. But you are right, North Koreans would be hard pressed even to fight against pre-Drone combined arms warfare, because even that already demands much flexibility and advanced education.

[@JoeRuff-pr5xu]

Probably couldn't go hunting without shooting their own shadow

[@AmazingCondominium]

What’s an fpv drone?

[@DanReda-l4t]

Totally inept. They fit right in.

[@iceman9678]

And for decades we've been told to fear nKorea.

[@Jurgir09]

Told by who? Nobody ever is afraid of them. And their "nuclear" program is just a hoax that CIA likes 2 use for fearmongering

[@mikeg3439]

dunno in America, most coverage makes them sound like a badly run giant gang.

[@iceman9678]

@@mikeg3439 Now that nK troops are fighting for Russia we're told that they're incompetent.

[@Richard-od7yd]

North Korean Cannon Fodder 😂

[@roqtest3070]

make that music even lauder please, cuz you know, thats what we came here for...

[@AmazingCondominium]

I turned the volume off. 😊

[@Anonymous-ff5wr]

Someone stop this dam war

[@bassafarside6071]

Could that someone be Mr. Putin?

[@belfastfella3240]

No , could it be the collective war mongering west ?

[@robertmueller6979]

Leave Ukraine. simple as that.

[@Anonymous-ff5wr]

@robertmueller6979 no it's probably not all that simple but something needs to be done pussyfooting around negotiations and crap with Russian Biden ain't working

[@vitawater4259]

Putin started this fiasco, he needs to leave Ukraine and pay compensation for the destruction he caused.

[@Gam18]

This is fake propaganda he cant go bak home he get punish for speakin in his allies

[@JulieSmith-x8g]

No, many of them do it, they are asked if they want to.

[@jimnpen8451]

Their casualties are already 3k out of the 10k

[@A.Hunter279]

Sounds like they're better than the guys they're supposed to help.

[@thomasryan5681]

Per Jong, they are all expendable. Cold hearted narcissist.

[@Runpulator]

You can pinch zoom your phone in to read the small text.

[@enjoyer9525]

Fix your eyes

[@Runpulator]

@@enjoyer9525 Fix your face.

[@Runpulator]

@@enjoyer9525 My eyes are fine. Fix your attitude.

[@tiredlawdog]

Now the Russians know how Rommel felt with the "help" of the Italians.

[@andrewdinkel5900]

Could not read what he said.

[@johnwalsh4857]

Yes this is typical of the North Koreans, very disciplined, well trained, very centralized command, they really follow the commanders word to the letter, however when they fight in real combat, no flexibility, even worse flexibility than Russian combat doctrine however higher morale and bit more discipline than Russian troops, when they go into real combat, they follow choreographed rotes as they had practiced to the letter, that is why you see them bunched up and nice juicy targets for drones and artillery. yah and they shoot at any drone, let them waste ammo. very amusing. also these North koreans are excellent cannon fodder. As a note the South Korean army is similiar however the South Korean army uses a much better US combat doctrine which while the South Korean army is much more disciplined than the US army, and more centralized command, and better trained too esp. in hand to hand combat, there is less flexibility in command compared to the US army. however the South Korean army has more flexibility in command than the NKs. with better gear too.

[@PVilarnovo]

"Well trained"... not quite.

[@handlepan63957]

This is what I observed too with East asians in general in Universities. They can get good grades with rote memorization. If you try to leave them behind on their own to solve a problem, they wouldn't be able to do it.

[@johnwalsh4857]

@@handlepan63957 agree I had the same assessment of East Asians, also look at their languages, esp. the Chinese and Japanese languages that use Chinese characters, supposedly you have to know 10K characters to be fully literate in the Japanese and Chinese languages, and to do that its all rote memorization. Also their soldiers are the same, the NKs and Chinese armies are even worse since they use Soviet combat doctrine which is already heavilly centralized with low operational flexibility and make it even more centralized and even less flexible.

[@horacionaranjo]

You know a lot about foreign armies... How long did you infiltrate each one?

[@TheBooban]

@@horacionaranjolol, he just made everything up.

[@ImmaTwoPops]

The NOKO soldiers are probably happy to get properly feed in Ukraine fighting for Russia,since they barely got any food at home. 😂

[@sclogse1]

Well, Russia isn't the best at this either.

[@jameshorton7496]

Think about it. The North Korean army has not fought a real battle in over 70 yrs. You see those parades in PyongYang with ALL those tough, stern looking soldiers that have never fought a battle. And yet, all those senior officers stand there next to Kim Jong Un and wear a zillion medals on their uniforms, and for what. Looking cool in uniform. Must be for the girls. And China is no different. What wars have they fought since the Korean War? None. I think they hope to beat their enemies with sheer numbers.

[@3366larryandrews]

What? Are you serious? Guess that means that since the U.S. hasn't been in a war since WWII, no Americans can fight?

[@ShanghaiRooster]

@@3366larryandrews You must have had a brain injury to forget about Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, and the two Gulf Wars (and the attendant fall out from them) I guess?

[@DT__1]

None of the sides actually is having a clue whats going on and why they are there... unbelievable...

[@swordsman3951]

Is this annoying music so necessary?

[@DONOSTIA45]

But of course it all depends on whom is writing the history book. I suspect yours is from a US publication. I ought to add a word of warning on taking an opinion on historical events, I was brought up in the UK, there it's widely understood that England won WW2, with some help(although belatedly) from the US. The USSR had little input and can be disregarded. The contemporary history books and especially aided by the main stream media are rewriting history.

[@62Cristoforo]

Typical military training in North Korea includes the firing of weapons with up to three bullets.

[@RushOrbit]

I can just imagine Russian soldiers apologizing to the Ukrainian soldiers that they had to bring their little brother along, and Ukrainian soldiers responding "nah, sorry you have to deal with that".

[@MrObsvenchilde]

It sounds like he's talking in a room

[@ElenaShares]

2 different people talking one after another

[@Xenophon1]

Mine detectors.

[@RKahiwalani]

Can’t read that tiny print! Grrrrrrr

[@shawnkemp2910]

I cant speak Russian,and i cant see the writing.

[@hispanoafricano8092]

Pobre gente, están obligados donde no deben estar.

[@DK-pb7tr]

They sound very scary

[@usualsuspect5173]

Can't hear what they've saying, content is too small to read...BS

[@dxtrrtxd6020]

Where s the power?

[@lindaabbott5230]

Show me one.

[@MateDrinker33]

Several such videos have been uploaded to KZbin.

[@JohnJ-p7o]

Thats not what clear videos of them say. Lying pow.

[@lauraleigh5562]

YT channel VOICE OF NORTH KOREA will show the utter horror of life there. It's beyond shocking and you will end up binge watching the vids

[@willybumbum6682]

Prob drugged up

[@BaronKreger]

cannon fodder

[@pjmariano9330]

They participate that war for food

[@justinkauffman731]

They are robots

[@johnross775]

State run media is great now huh?

[@sadjaxx]

All these Radio Free channels are probably going down the shltter one the Felon gets certified (if that happens)

[@DONOSTIA45]

Please John, Say something about the vid, Don't concern yourself with my comical side.

[@twinsen1949]

They're the death corp of Krieg lmao

[@rayhill5767]

Berserker warriors Figures

[@aaronroberts4264]

Bs

[@regorflora7915]

unrealiables source giving useless info. i want my 1 minute and 18 seconds back

[@sclogse1]

Fine, why don't you read a North Korean newspaper and tell us all what's cooking?

[@regorflora7915]

@sclogse1 i feel guilty wasting time and effort replying

[@SylviaSanchez-cl2eo]

Yet another of millions of BS youtube trash videos.

[@sclogse1]

Nice try, but this just makes you look like a Russian bot.

[@benfinesilver2250]

Lol

[@UnderpaidKraken]

Nice propaganda 😂

[@namastezen3300]

What evidence will you present to refute this person's account?

[@MrObsvenchilde]

@@namastezen3300 It sounds like he's talking in a room but the video shows he's outside

[@namastezen3300]

@@MrObsvenchilde no better evidence? A good microphone and equalization will make anywhere sound like indoors.

[@ElenaShares]

Are you saying there are no Koreans there or they are not shooting at every drone they see? There are other video evidence to support it. So what is the propaganda trying to do here?

[@namastezen3300]

@elenashares no propaganda, just krembots trying to make something out of nothing.

[@randeldaniel5437]

😂😂😂

[@ChristopherPaxton-yg1st]

More western propaganda total bull shit

[@sclogse1]

Let's see, what countries control their media? Russia, North Korea...

[@falco148]

Here's the problem.....there aren't actually any NK troops in Ukraine.

[@MateDrinker33]

That's because they're still fighting in Kursk.

[@AmazingCondominium]

@@MateDrinker33that’s because Ukraine is busy annexing Russia.

[@sclogse1]

@@AmazingCondominium Nobody believes your gaslighting. Ukraine isn't invading Russia.

[@pointsoflightradio9785]

NATO propaganda

[@johnham4485]

everything is propaganda in your Orc's eyes.

[@sclogse1]

Let's see, what countries control their media? Russia, North Korea....

[@tempo529]

Жалкая западная пропаганда.

[@sclogse1]

Since North Korea and Russia both say there is North Koreans fighting for Russia, you sound a little out of date.

[@dbelex]

They also said they saw 3 Ukrainians trying to change a light bulb for the past 3 weeks to.

[@BRuane-pw6xq]

One 3 Rd world Nation being helped by a 4 the world Nation 😂😂😂

[@donm3844]

North Korea has trained troops in Russia for years and there is no North Korean troops fighting in Russia ,The western propaganda is laughable. What we do know from Natos own admission, is there is Troops in Ukraine working as Advisers,Trainers and logistics and in many different capacities , We have seen captured mercenaries and dead mercenaries from the USA and Nato countries ,So when Russia decides to use North Korean troops ,that's perfectly fine to counter what the Nato countries have been doing since the beginning of the war. Go Russia 🇷🇺

[@stevenpollard5171]

Putin started a war that has killed hundreds of thousands and destroyed much of Ukraine, and you are okay with that?

[@DONOSTIA45]

In fact there's a video just put out of a Australian mercenary just caught by the Russians Xmas eve.

[@simonehanel]

Hello, who started not the war as Mr Putin says but this special operation? And who drew red lines after crossing himself the so to speak "redest" line by invading a neighbouring country and harassing it's people? Mr Putin get out of the Ukraine with all your troops regardless from which country.

[@sclogse1]

@@DONOSTIA45 What makes you think a guy fighting for Ukraine is a mercenary? You wanna make money, fighting as a soldier on a battlefield is not the way to do it.Maybe you should look up the definition of mercenary. We already know there are volunteers from other countries fighting for Ukraine, but these are a scattered few. Not some Army of ten thousand like the North Koreans.

[@sclogse1]

What makes you think a guy fighting for Ukraine is a mercenary? You wanna make money, fighting as a soldier on a battlefield is not the way to do it. Maybe you should look up the definition of mercenary. We already know there are volunteers from other countries fighting for Ukraine, but these are a scattered few. Not some Army of ten thousand like the North Koreans. You saying there are no North Korean troops in Russia makes no sense, especially when North Korea and Russia says they are there, and now there are captured North Koreans in Ukraine. Aside from that, Russia is attacking a democratic country. They booted out a pro Putin dictator who was financed bigly by Russia, as evidenced by his life style and possessions that rich fellow left behind. Shades of Assad. The history is all there. Paul Manafort trying to reshape his image to be more palatable, getting paid millions whether he succeeded or failed. The real sad part about all this is the proper way to get influence in another country is economically. Russia could have rebuilt relationships and a partnership with Ukraine economically but chose invasion, death and more death. And lying about Ukraine and it's president. The state in Russia controls the media. They can't have open media in Ukraine. SAVVY?

[@marcuslegion3654]

Fake news

[@sclogse1]

You went deep for that one, I see.

[@luisantonioordonezhuaco9035]

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