• Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    It really says something about the state of the Russian military that they have to buy up the trash that’s too crappy for North Korea’s army.

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      North Korea’s army which, whilst having a stranglehold on available resources in its threadbare economy, hasn’t seen combat since the 1950s. Its actual combat readiness may fall short of its rhetoric.

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        may

        They can’t even stop their own guys sprinting off across the DMZ.

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        South Korea is going to have a wealth of embarrassing NK military footage from this to use in their cross border propaganda deliveries. That could damage morale inside North Korea in a way that’s never been seen before.

        Fingers crossed this dumb decision hurts their regime hard.

        • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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          To my knowledge, people close to the borders where propaganda can effectively reach are already quite aware that their government is a joke. They’re just stuck there.