Sending the DPRK troops to the Donbas: Koreans will need the Russian Federation for assault actions - Defense Express

According to The Military Balance 2023, the DPRK army has not very numerous engineering troops, and in the fall of 2022 it formed a minimum of five new its own engineering regiments. Analysts say that this is enough to build enough fortifications within a short time.

The report that North Korea will send its engineering troops to the territory of the temporarily occupied Donetsk region for the construction of fortifications, looks "strange", rather the DPRK servicemen will need the Kremlin during the assault. This assumption made analysts of the Military Portal Defense Express. "At the moment, the story with the possible involvement of engineering troops from North Korea for action on the side of ray*looks at least a little strange," the material reads.

Analysts explained that, according to The Military Balance 2023, the DPRK army has 5 to 8 engineering regiments and one pontoon-bridge regiment. That is, North Korea has not very numerous engineering troops so that it could be an interesting proposal for Russian invaders.

In addition, in the fall of 2022, Russia formed a minimum of five new engineering regiments, which created a sufficiently numerical outfit of forces and means that allow them to build enough powerful fortifications within a short term. "It should be made that the Kremlin of North Korean" volunteers "may be needed for assault against the Armed Forces on the battlefield, not for auxiliary tasks that engineering troops perform," - emphasized in Defense Express.

Military analysts noted that the South Korean media, which were the first to report the possible departure of the DPRK army to Ukraine, could inaccurately reproduce certain data because of the specifics of their own worldview. In particular, it is TV Chosun. At the same time, experts do not rule out the most likely that the North Korean regime will give the Kremlin a live mass to fight against Ukraine.