• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Once again the US is still at war with North Korea, that means all North Korean troops in the Ukraine are valid targets.

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    13 hours ago

    MAGA Republicans are now on the same side as North Korea.

    Nice work Republicans. This is not at all fucked up.

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      7 hours ago

      Weren’t they already? I seem to remember Trump and “Rocket Man” talks and such the last time he was in office and MAGA was down for it.

      Doesn’t make it less fucked up, just that there’s a lot of that to follow.

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    13 hours ago

    Russia gets a bunch of troops that have no combat experience vs. a bunch of hardened Ukrainian combat veterans and it’s virtually guaranteed that a good portion will try to defect.

    What does North Korea get out of this? Reducing surplus population?

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      6 hours ago

      These aren’t cadets. They’re probably extremely loyal and well trained. What they get is real modern warfare experience they will bring back home. Maybe, as a remote possibility, they’ll get nuclear info to improve on their own projects.

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      12 hours ago

      What does North Korea get out of this?

      goodwill from an arms exporter. money, food, other aid. actual military experience for their armed forces.

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      13 hours ago

      Bunch of malnourished troops as well. They aren’t just genetically short.

      Any survivors will bring back experience, so there is that. And they will learn modern warfare stuff, like drone/antidrone tactics.

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            12 hours ago

            More than that, they supposedly punish multiple generations of the family in labor camps. You can Google something like North Korea 3 generations to see the details.

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              11 hours ago

              Yeah, rough situation. Ideally, Ukraine needs a way to signal to them, “If you surrender, we’ll say you were captured/killed so your family is safe”.

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      13 hours ago

      Rumor is that North Korea get what a volunteer would get.
      I believe Russia recently raised that to the equivalent of $30k.
      If true that is $300 million for Kim Jong Un. On top of all the crap equipment Russia has bought.
      Not a lot for a normal country, but for a dictator who pocket most of it, it’s probably pretty nice.

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