It has become known what kind of training the DPRK military undergoes in Russia before being sent to the front.
This preparation is quite condensed, up to three weeks, and reveals exactly how the Kremlin plans to put troops from the DPRK into action, writes Defense Expres.
Its contents were revealed by its own sources in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
We are talking about combined arms training, and the North Korean military is also taught Russian commands, conducts agreements and is introduced to Russian weapons and military equipment. Several additional conclusions can be drawn from this.
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Firstly, the level of actual training of the DPRK military was recognized by Russian commanders as requiring basic training. Even despite the fact that the DPRK sent special operations forces, as reported by South Korean intelligence.
Secondly, studying Russian commands and their execution according to Russian instructions may mean plans to use these units in the “same formation” with Russian ones and under Russian leadership. This is instead of a scenario in which a conditional expeditionary force would be formed from the DPRK troops, to which the corresponding section of the front would be allocated while maintaining the internal hierarchy and without reassignment.
It should be added that South Korean intelligence investigated that the first military personnel from the DPRK were transported to Russia on October 8th. At the same time, at the front, and the first area of their deployment, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the MOU, should be the Kursk region and they should be there before November 1. That is, the entire course of additional training for the North Korean military in Russia can last up to three weeks.
Also, sources in the GUR MOU noted that we are only talking about overturning manpower, without their own equipment and weapons. Thus, we are talking about a real trade in “cannon fodder,” which risks turning into a systematic one and solving one of Russia’s problems—the lack of manpower.
Source: Racurs
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