NK Troops are Failing in Kursk. But That May Not Matter.
Simon Whistler · January 23, 2025 · 14 min video · Europe & NATO
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On the 9th of January 2025, a battered and bloodied Russian army soldier was hauled off the battlefield by Ukrainian forces in Kurska blast. A Swiss shakedown led them to a military ID, which revealed that the soldier was 19 years old and a native of the Siberian Republic of Tuva, close to Mongolia. But it was fake.
The soldier couldn't speak Russian, something which would be standard for the ethnic, proven majority of the Republic, or even someone who'd spent more than a few months in the Russian military. The soldier was North Korean, belonging to a detachment of DPRK soldiers supporting Russia in Kursk in a faltering attempt to counter the Ukrainian Persian.
With the assistance of a South Korean intelligence service, further information on North Korean involvement was quickly uncovered.
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