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    1. I feel for them. Talk about pawns on a chessboard.

      Best case scenario a fraction of them will be able to surrender before they’re literally blown to bits.

    2. The North Koreans probably don’t have a clue what’s about to happen to them. Exclusion by illusion.

    3. Consider how little this matters if true. Russia is losing 2k troops per day. This is 5 days of troops. Keep in mind they will be unarmed and unable to communicate. While I am sure Russia will give them guns, they will likely be cannonfotter

    4. Just make sure that you are all aware that the North Korean troops are deployed in Russia. No North Korean troops are in Ukraine (including currently occupied territories).

    5. I feel like because NK has a poor reputation, people aren’t taking the fact seriously that a whole foreign country with nuclear weapons is deploying soldiers alongside Russia. It’s pretty different from ammo and weapons and other war materials.

      I seriously wonder if Europe would do anything concrete if Ukraine started to collapse. Or if they’d just watch and say ā€œdarn our luckā€ when Russia inevitably builds up its forces again and pulls some BS reason to being the next cycle

    6. That is not good. North Korea’s GDP per capita is 1,000 USD, while recruitment costs in Russia are north of 20,000 USD.

      North Korea’s economy is booming due to the influx of Russian wealth from sending troops and weapons. Kim will keep sending troops as long as Putin pays.

      North Korea has 1 million active soldiers if around 20% are sent, that is 200,000, which is not a number that can be disregarded.

    7. It is time for Playboy to do the most effective thing they can possibly imagine. It will cost a couple of flights of fuel on a C17/C130 and a TON of magazines.

    8. ConstantCampaign2984 on

      Not real sure about the accuracy of calendars back in the day. The actual average lifespan though was roughly 35-40 years from what I’ve read in the past. Being generous and saying 40, times the number of days in a lunar cycle 29.5 you get a person who is 1,180 ā€œyearsā€ old.

      This is my guess based on the reliability of the lunar cycle and what people knew of astronomy outside of ā€œgod did itā€.

    9. North Korea has to do that. Russia supplies them with food, oil, and money. Without Russian aids, they cannot survive the winter. This is the price you pay when you choose a non-rational system like communism.

    10. In fact, an alliance of dictators has already taken shape there,
      ready for a Third World War — Russia, North Korea, and Iran.
      (And if something can go wrong, it may well go wrong — with China joining them too.)

      On the other side, so far, we see only observers arguing about whether it is legitimate
      to use the aggressor’s money for defense needs.
      After all, they might be sued after the war, and that could put their profits at risk.
      The only question is whether there will be anyone left to collect those profits.