Captured Journal Shows Intense Indoctrination of North Korean Soldiers Fighting Ukraine
Here is an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about North Korean forces fighting Ukraine in Russia:
The crude stick-figure diagram, sketched in blue ink, details how North Korean soldiers deployed to support Russia in the Ukraine war should respond to the approach of a Ukrainian drone. One soldier—referred to as “bait” in the drawing—should stand still to lure the drone so that a pair of comrades can attempt to shoot it down.
The grisly tactics were divulged in a diary taken off a slain North Korean soldier on Dec. 21, with passages containing mundane details of life at the front, descriptions of combat tactics and expressions of love for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to excerpts recently made public by Ukraine’s special-operations forces. Independent experts say the diary entries appear genuine, with penmanship, word choice and expressions of ideological fervor all common in North Korea.
The young soldier who penned the passage about the drone died in a firefight alongside two other compatriots, according to Ukraine’s special forces.
“Even at the cost of my life, I will carry out the Supreme Commander’s orders without hesitation,” reads one entry from the diary. “I will show the world the bravery and sacrifice of Kim Jong Un’s special forces.”
You can read more at the link, but Ukraine intelligence services are stating there has been up to 4,000 North Korean casualties. They are also reporting that North Korea may be preparing a second deployment of Soldiers to assist Russia. What I found most interesting from the article is that Ukraine has lost half the land they seized in Russia which shows that despite the heavy losses the North Koreans may be having an impact on the battlefield.
There is something discourteously called “The Fuzzy Wuzzy Principle” that the British under Queen Victoria learned in the late 19th Century (1800s for you chinabots). That is, a soldier with 2x as much armor, advanced weaponry, and vastly superior training can be killed with simple low-tech weapons (like the shovel-headed spears carried by the eponymous Sudanese tribesmen).
And quantity has a quality all its own. Thus, in an attitional war like Ukraine, it may boil down to numbers, not technology.
I hope the fighting and dying will soon end. There are already too many grieving families on all sides.
Who is this addressed to?
And does this wish of peace also apply to Greenland, Panama, and Canada? Hypocrite.