Motivation vs. Technology: How Pyongyang is (Effectively) Helping the Kremlin in the War
OPINION
South Korean intelligence shared data on the North’s expeditionary forces in Russia. Currently, they have information on more than 300 killed and 2700 sickened as a result of injuries, illnesses, and accidents.
That is, for a second, the enemy has lost up to 25-30% of the group, part of which is made up of elite special forces.
This is good – the front in the Kursk region is still stable, despite the pressure and the assault on Malaya Loknya.
An attempt to attack Makhnovka failed with heavy losses, and the village, although it changed hands, remained under the control of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
The enemy column south of Mala Loknya near Mykilske came under mines, Javelins, FPVs and artillery fire. It was defeated, losing half a dozen tanks and armored vehicles.
Russia is paying a high price
Russian losses from the fighting, evacuation, etc. in just a few districts of the Kursk region amounted to 750 billion rubles. This is 5 times the budget of the entire Kursk region.
This is the price of the madness that the Kremlin regime has started. Now they are bombing their own district center of Sudzha with one and a half tonne aircraft, demolishing schools there and shouting that this is their land.
For some reason, they have forgotten why the Ukrainian Defense Forces were there, and why they had to send conscripts to the front and buy the services of North Koreans.
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DPRK soldiers are motivated and trained
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of South Korea said that despite a number of losses and captures, Pyongyang is intensifying the sending of troops and heavy weapons to Russia.
This is quite logical – they have realized their first mistakes and are trying to counteract the two scourges of the US – UAVs and long-range Western artillery with special ammunition (high-precision, cassettes, remote mine placement).
The Koreans have proved to be a motivated and prepared enemy for drone warfare – despite communication problems and language barriers, they attack in infantry formation under the influence of UAVs, use concentrated fire on air targets, and employ anti-drone teams, pump-action rifles, backpacks, and EW rifles.
And most likely, they will evolve into special air defense platoons that will huddle at the head and tail of the column, distributing jamming to anti-aircraft drones, etc.
Probably facing a lack of heavy weapons that could outshoot Western guns at range, northerners began to pull long-range self-propelled artillery systems and MLRS disguised as civilian trucks to use hit-and-run tactics.
At the front, 170 mm Koksan M1989 self-propelled artillery systems were spotted, not only in the Kursk region. They were used in the Liman direction and in raids across the border.
This is the niche of “Peons”, which, in fact, launch 2 heavy shells in 5 minutes, they were used in the Iran-Iraq war, for counter-battery fighting against the Iraqi batteries and firing on oil fields.
What’s next?
Globally, the Russians managed to stabilize the situation in Kursk using conscripts, fire brigades transferred from different parts of the front, and later by bringing North Koreans into the battle.
The expeditionary corps has problems with communication and language barriers, but it has no problems with motivation and artillery in storage.
Moreover, they have been preparing for such a conflict – to strike a large millionaire as much as possible through the DMZ, having as their opponents Western 155 mm artillery with good barrels that outshoot them in range, high-precision missiles that hit a ten-meter circle 80 km away, and aviation that is two generations ahead of North Korean.
Therefore, in principle, they will be useful to Moscow, even though they are coming in the style of banzai attacks from the 60s and 70s of the last century. At least to close the issue with Kursk.
What should we do?
We have to realize that Trump’s words about peace in 24 hours, oh, 100 days, oh, as soon as possible, are bumping into an unpleasant reality.
The Korean Expeditionary Corps, which will be built up, heavy weapons from the countries of the “global south,” the first 10 thousand people drafted by the occupiers from the occupied territories (has anyone heard the latest songs about the TCC and watched the video of a crowd of women fighting off those who have been served with a summons?)
So we need to run as fast as we can just to stay put.
But so far, the enemy has lost a lot of people and has not achieved its goals.
