Leaflets are being distributed along the front lines instructing North Korean troops on how to surrender.

Summary

Ukraine is using psychological warfare to target North Korean troops fighting for Russia, urging them to surrender through the “I Want to Live” campaign.

This initiative, which previously encouraged Russian soldiers to defect, now includes Korean-language leaflets and videos instructing North Korean troops on how to safely surrender.

Up to 12,000 North Korean soldiers have reportedly been deployed to Russia’s Kursk region, with some killed in the conflict.

In return for their support, Russia is supplying fighter jets to North Korea, heightening geopolitical tensions.

  • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
    71·
    14 days ago

    Not enough attention is being paid by world leaders that North Korean troops are fighting on European soil.

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.todayEnglish
      24·
      14 days ago

      The reaction over that is heavily tempered by the fact that the North Koreans are staying inside Russia. If they were in Ukraine I’m pretty sure the reaction would be much different.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      13 days ago

      From what I’ve heard, “fighting” is a very generous description of what they’re capable of.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    25·
    14 days ago

    Oh wait. NK is getting fighters? I thought it was just missiles and trade goods and so on.

    Edit: yeah - tracked down some other articles indicating MiG-29s and Su-27s - many of which are still crates of parts, which NK wants to assemble (and, tbh, probably try to reverse engineer to some degree) themselves

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5·
        14 days ago

        NK fighters are just super, super old Russian jets tho.

        Anyway, at this rate they will be flying biplanes by the next decade.

            • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              4·
              13 days ago

              Nah, they were top of the line fighters in like 1970. They are supersonic and everything. The problem is just that, for example, a lot of their fighters have radars that can’t really see aircraft that are below them with the ground as backdrop.

              They apparently have some MiG-29s, which is basically the tech level that is flying around in Ukraine on both sides, except the stuff that is in Ukraine has been modernized like 4 times since the type first flew in 1983, I doubt the NK fighters were.

              • Shawdow194@fedia.io
                2·
                13 days ago

                They just actually got MiG29s and SU-27s. It’s gonna be awhile before they are trained to fly them properly

                And from what we’ve seen on the ground (or air) in Ukraine they are NOT going to be 5th gen retrofitted jets

                • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                  4·
                  13 days ago

                  Wikipedia claimed the 29s from sources that are years old. IDK though, not like it really matters, NK is basically a Chinese buffer state, any war one is involved in brings the other in.

                  Those old MiG-21 derivatives will make for nice NCD memes though.

                  You can’t get a lock on an American jet because of their stealth features.

                  I can’t because I don’t even have a look-down/shoot-down radar.

                  We are not the same.