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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago

18 doesn't seem like many. North Korea must have sent thousands

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 hours ago

my first thought when nk sent troops was what an opportunity to get out of nk.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 hours ago

I hope they all find better lives and live them.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 hours ago

North Korean battle theme in Ukraine:

[–] [email protected] 84 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Imagine living in a 1950's time bubble. You are being constantly told through propaganda that your military force is cutting edge and that it can easily overwhelm any enemy.

Then you are being sent to fight on a battlefield where everyone has better gear than you, where you are confronted to weapons that are so far advanced beyond anything that you've ever seen they might as well be magic. Then you see said weapons completely obliterate your comrades without giving you a chance to even see the enemy who operates them.

You only obeyed so far because you feared what your government might do to you if you didn't. Now you've found something that you fear even more.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

imagine them seeing the drone for the first time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

For the first and last time 😟

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Hey (pointing skywards), is that a dro....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

you are confronted by* weapons

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 hours ago

Novel? As in a book of fiction? This is happening right now. I am sure some video of this will come out of this sad story and maybe in a few years some of these people who surrendered will be able to write their own story first hand. (I am assuming they will not want to go back to nk).

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

How pathetic does Russia have to be to be bringing NORTH KOREAN troops into the war. It would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 hours ago

What's pathetic about it? Cannon fodder is cannon fodder. They can hold a rifle just as well as any other person, and they can use it to kill. Acting like getting foreign troops helping you is somehow beneath you in a war is insane

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Its TAU TACTICS!

LIKE KROOT! with significantly less survival rates and effectiveness which is damn impressive

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Also the Norks cant eat their enemies and gain their traits, at least I think they cant. Can I setup a test site? I just need a Nork, a MAGA, and a hacksaw.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 39 minutes ago

You don't want that. A MAGA Nork would become he next Republican nominee

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I know a good number of North Koreans would love to defect if there weren't going to be consequences for their families back home. Put those people in a situation where they can just disappear and have it explained as being honorably slain in combat? Seems like a golden opportunity if the country they defect to doesn't just send them back.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I know a good number of North Koreans...

How do you know so many North Koreans?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Hah, got me there.

I did actually meet a North Korean once when I spent a fair bit of time in Seoul during a study abroad program, but she "defected" as a child (read: smuggled into the South via China by some Christian group) and didn't really have much recollection of what life in the North was even like. Definitely not many though!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

One is more than a lot of us can claim.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Nice try, Kim!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

Hi Kim, me and my whole family wants to def .. go to Ukraine and die for you!!

The whole family!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago

I'll file this under "Most Easily Predicted Outcome."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I want to know if they screamed "FREEEEEDOM!!" while doing it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

Probably but I don't think they screamed in English.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 hours ago

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