Fighters come arrive under Kursk: the Armed Forces have already distributed techniques for talking with prisoners with the DPRK
The Ukrainian military prepared: photos of the phrases have already appeared on social networks, in which Korean translated the basic phrases like "to cooperate in your interests" and "Throw weapons". Nytimes writes about the arrival of soldiers of the DPRK to the Russian Federation.
The North Korean troops have not yet entered the battle, and it is not yet clear what role they will play, said US and Ukraine officials, speaking on the conditions of anonymity to discuss delicate intelligence issues. "Whatever their role is, any significant contingent of the North Korean troops will allow Russia to keep more of its strength in eastern Ukraine," insiders say.
For several weeks, the governments of South Korea and Ukraine have warned that thousands of North Koreans train with Russian soldiers, and Ukraine calls a figure up to 12,000 servicemen. And this week, US officials have confirmed that the contingent of the North Korean troops was transported to a ship to Vladivostok, a large Russian city in the Pacific, that Minister of Defense Lloyd J. Austin called "a very, very serious" escalation.
After the first North Korean troops, they went a long way from the Far East of the Russian Federation to the Kursk region. And since then, thousands of new soldiers arrive in the region. A high -ranking Ukrainian official, aware of troops, said that up to 5,000 North Korean soldiers was expected to be harvested by Monday. The Ukrainians have already prepared. Photographers with phrases of Ukrainian and Korean appeared in social networks to communicate with soldiers with the DPRK and captured them.
At the time of the publication, the Ukrainian command did not formally commented whether the defense forces were in fact issued techniques for communicating with the captives of North Korean servicemen. It is noteworthy, but it is still unclear how the soldiers of the DPRK will behave on the battlefield, whether they will be captured at all and what will happen to them then. It is unlikely that Kim Jong -in is ready to change his fighters or take care of them.
According to officials, troops are part of the elite unit of the Korean People's Army. They are delivered from Vladivostok on board the huge transport aircraft IL-76 at the military airfield in the west of Russia, and then sent to the war zone, the Ukrainian official said. It is unclear whether the DPRK soldiers will fight directly in the territory of Ukraine. Currently, they are concentrated only in the Kursk region.
It is unclear how to replenish the personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the North Korean military can change the dynamics on the battlefield, if possible. The DPRK soldiers have not been fighting in any war since the 1950s. The last fighting was in the 1990s, and there is a question of even the special forces of North Korea.
Even before they enter the battlefield, they will have to fight the language barrier, unfamiliar terrain and army customs that can be very different from their own. If they are sent to the front in Kursk, they will have to face the Ukrainian forces hardened in battles, which even the Russians can cope with. "I do not expect them to become a highly efficient battle force if they find themselves on the front.
But someone should die on the battlefield, and from the point of view of the Russians, of course, it is better if this one is not Russian," Emil Casthelmy wrote, a military expert from The Finnish Black Bird Group, however, in the White House, the most important issue is not the very fact of sending Kim Jong -in soldiers to Russia, but that the North Korean dictator could get from his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin instead.
Currently, US officials say that they have not seen any evidence of the exchange, but there is a fears that North Korea leader Kim Jong -in may receive some significant military assistance for their care, which can exacerbate the danger that North Korea is for their neighbors and the United States. Officials and experts claim that Kim Jong -in seeks to increase the flight of their intercontinental ballistic missiles and demonstrate that they are capable of affecting US cities.
On October 24, the lower house of the Russian Parliament ratified a mutual defense agreement with North Korea, which Putin signed with Kim in June. It was a fictitious vote, but Putin used it to confirm Moscow's connections with North Korea and send a signal that he attracts allies that would strengthen his confrontation with the West.
North Korea representative to the UN during the meeting of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly on Disarmament and International Security stated military cooperation with Russia: "My delegation does not consider it necessary to comment on such unreasonable stereotyped rumors aimed relations between two sovereign states.
" This statement sounded in response to the words of the Ukrainian ambassador that Pyongyang plans to send 11,000 regular troops to help Russia in hostilities in Ukraine soon. However, later Russian President Vladimir Putin and Deputy Foreign Minister of North Korea did not refute these reports, which testifies to their actual recognition of the fact of the deployment of troops. Putin stated that on Thursday, the State Duma ratified the Treaty on "Comprehensive Strategic Partnership".
The contract provides "providing mutual assistance in the event of aggression" against one of its participants. "There is Article 4 there," Putin said. And he added: Pyongyang "treats our arrangements seriously.
" Article 4 of the Agreement provides that "if one of the parties is in a state of war through an armed attack of one or more states, the other party will immediately provide her military assistance with all the means available to her in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter and the DPRK and the Russian Federation.
" "What and how we will do within this article is our business," Putin summed up, without telling any details about the departure of the North Korean military to Russia and their goals. And the Deputy Head of the Foreign Ministry for Russian Kim John Guy said in connection with the version of sending troops to Russia, which has been spreading recently "" I drew attention to the version of sending our army to Russia, which has been distributed by international media recently.
Our Foreign Ministry is not directly related to the cases of the Ministry of Defense and we do not have to confirm such information separately. What obviously there are such forces that want to describe it as illegal, "Kim Jong Guu said. We will remind, the focus earlier wrote about the special forces of the DPRK, which allegedly fighting with Russian soldiers. It is known that the families of soldiers who went to Russia were isolated.