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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/world...ussia.html

North Korean troops are apparently no longer on the front lines.  Evidently they were being used as fodder for the meet grinder.

Many of the soldiers are among North Korea’s best-trained special operations troops, but the Russians appear to have used them as foot soldiers, sending them forth in waves across fields studded with land mines to be mowed down by heavy Ukrainian fire.
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The American officials said the decision to pull the North Korean troops off the front line may not be a permanent one. It is possible, they said, that the North Koreans could return after receiving additional training or after the Russians come up with new ways of deploying them to avoid such heavy casualties.

I hope that it is not, in fact, so they can return to the battlefield in a more effective usage.

BC

[BostonCard]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/world...ussia.html

North Korean troops are apparently no longer on the front lines.  Evidently they were being used as fodder for the meet grinder.

Many of the soldiers are among North Korea’s best-trained special operations troops, but the Russians appear to have used them as foot soldiers, sending them forth in waves across fields studded with land mines to be mowed down by heavy Ukrainian fire.
Editors’ Picks

The American officials said the decision to pull the North Korean troops off the front line may not be a permanent one. It is possible, they said, that the North Koreans could return after receiving additional training or after the Russians come up with new ways of deploying them to avoid such heavy casualties.

I hope that it is not, in fact, so they can return to the battlefield in a more effective usage.

BC