PREVIEW: Colleague David Maxwell reports what is known of how DPRK troops performed in the Kursk salient. More later.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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1951 KOREAN WAR
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| 0:54.4 | everything secure. This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague David Maxwell about the |
| 1:00.3 | North Korean deployment of up to 12,000 troops into Russia to fight in the Kersk salient against the |
| 1:07.7 | Ukrainian resistance. |
| 1:13.2 | The question is, how did they perform? |
| 1:16.5 | And David gives an accounting of what they learned and the anecdotes that we have about how they performed |
| 1:20.3 | and what they took with them back to North Korea |
| 1:24.4 | to a million-man army. |
| 1:26.9 | Here's David Maxwell, helping me understand that moment when 12,000 North Korean troops were in a suicide attack mode against Ukrainian weaponry? |
| 1:40.8 | More of this later. |
| 1:42.6 | Well, I think that, you know, there's a lot of speculation, |
| 1:47.1 | and I think some good analysis that they're learning how to employ modern equipment, |
| 1:51.7 | particularly drones, both to employ them and to defend against them. |
| 1:56.2 | As General Brunson would describe, they've learned some strategic maneuver, moving from Korea to North Korea to Kursk. |
| 2:05.7 | And they are learning and experiencing modern techniques. |
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