The "Secret Special Forces" of the DPRK arrived in the Kursk region: how their collision from the Armed Forces will go

Ukrainian troops can meet with an elite unit of the 11th Army of the DPRK. The North Korean contingent may have a high morale, but it is unknown how "special forces" will behave after a fight with fighters hardened by a real war. The focus figured out how the Armed Forces would resist the armies of the two countries. North Korea supplied Russia's artillery ammunition and ballistic missiles KN-23, and officers were sent to monitor their combat use.

The military cooperation of the two countries goes to a new level: regular DPRK troops are masking for boar and Yakuts to transfer to the Kursk region, Financial Times (FT) writes with reference to videos from South Korea's intelligence service. Ukrainian troops can be resisted by fighters of the elite unit of the "assault corps" of the 11th Army of the DPRK.

Well-equipped and highly qualified mobile light infantry differs qualitatively from ordinary North Korean soldiers, most of whom did not pass adequate combat training, said FT Senior Researcher at the South Korea National Security Strategy in Seola. On October 23, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine recorded the arrival in the war zone in the Kursk region of the first units of the DPRK army, which were trained at the Eastern Russian landfills.

They were allocated for combat coordination with the invaders for several weeks. According to Ukraine's military intelligence, the number of northern Korean soldiers was thrown into the Russian Federation is approximately 12 thousand people, including 500 officers, including three generals from Pyongyan. The Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Yunus-Beck Yevkurov is responsible for controlling military training and adaptation of mixed combat groups.

Senior researcher on the ground war at the Royal Institute of the United British Armed Forces Jack Wotling in a conversation with FT expressed confidence that helping the DPRK would create problems for Ukraine. The North Korean contingent can be well cohesive and have a high morale.

Representatives of Western intelligence talk about the refusal of Russian President Vladimir Putin to carry out another wave of mobilization and the desire to replenish the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with volunteers for big money. In the case of Pyongyan's soldiers, the Russian command will face problems of control over them, but here will be useful to work with the Proiganic forces and militias during the Civil War in Syria.

The Russian Federation will create on this basis a working model for soldiers from the DPRK, says the expert. Wotling believes that Russia seeks to put Ukraine in a situation where the maintenance of the front line in the Kursk region will become impossible for it. "Ukraine is constantly paying for the maintenance of territories in the Kursk region," he said. It is difficult to assess the level of specialization and preparation of the North Korean contingent, since there is very little input.

One can only assume that the engineering and technical troops of the DPRK are really professionals. The whole territory of the country is covered with rocks, it is also known that the North Korean experts helped terrorists "Hezbollai" to build offensive and infrastructure tunnels, reminiscent of a conspiracy with a focus of reserve, an expector of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Vladislav Seleznov.

The level of professionalism of "secret special forces" is unknown is possible a little better than other regular units. North Korean leader's propaganda Kim Jong -in has provided a video of the special forces showing the level of physical fitness and breaking the bricks. It is unclear whether these actions of soldiers as real professionals are unclear. "What technique will they work with? If driven from the DPRK, you need to wait up to four weeks.

It takes time to work on Russian technique for its thorough development. Although in the conditions when the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation themselves feel the lack of tanks and armored vehicles, it is unclear where to take them Even for the army of another country, ”Seleznyov emphasizes.

According to the Executive Director of the Ukrainian Center for Security and Cooperation, Dmitry Zhmaylo, the DPRK army first sends special operations (SCOs) soldiers to the Kursk region, their total number is estimated at 200,000 people. SCO is one of the most accurate structures in the country, and practically nothing is known about them. Twisting to the Kursk region about 12 thousand soldiers will not change the situation, but will allow to conduct offensive operations, he tells focus.

Former UN experts from North Korea Gud Griffiths agrees with him. In an interview with France24, he said that the North Korean troops were destroyed in Ukraine. The DPRK has one of the largest armies in the world, but its soldiers did not participate in real battles. It is in Ukraine that Kim Jong -in propaganda about the "invincibility" of North Korea is like a soap bubble, and will collapse the moral spirit of the country, he is convinced.

"The Ukrainians will break them, you will see the defeat of North Korea . . . They will die, they will not succeed, and even more so they will not reach Kiev on Russian tanks. There will be nothing good for them there," the expert said. According to Dmitry Zhmayl, the Russian authorities want to involve the DPRK's troops in their region to show the strict fulfillment of the terms of the contract on mutual military assistance.

Pyongyan is interesting to send soldiers to the war to gain combat experience, because Ukrainian troops use western weapons. However, entering a third party conflict is a serious escalation in a full -scale war, to which the event is obliged to answer. "Compare the size of Ukraine and Russia. Does the Russian Federation not cope with us that we will be able to fight against the two countries, we need to raise this topic and ask partners about the answer.

Can return to the idea [President of France Emmanuel] Macron about sending the contingent NATO, "the expert says. Placing the DPRK's combat units in the occupied territories of Ukraine is a matter of time. And if Western democracy will show weakness again, Putin will understand that it is more aggressive, he says. The ultimate goal of sending North Korea troops to the war in Ukraine is to enlist Russia's obligations to intervene on its side in any conflict on the Korean Peninsula.

In this case, the South Korean and American high -ranking military will have to view all the developed models of war. Recall that in the United States talk about the possibility of direct military intervention in the event of the entry of North Korea troops into the war in Ukraine on the side of the army of the Russian Federation. Such a scenario will be a red rice for the United States, said Mike Turner, chairman of the Intelligence Committee.