This article was originally published in Danish on November 27, 2024.

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The North Koreans are reportedly haunting Ukraine. No one has been able to provide any evidence of their presence, but let’s just state some facts: the Russian army speaks Russian – the North Korean army speaks Korean. It should already be clear to everyone that North Korean units cannot be integrated into the strike force. And then there is the whole mentality and the very different military education and training. It makes no sense at all. Finally, the Russians are not short of soldiers. There are currently 40,000 volunteers a month – and the Russian losses are not astronomical, but relatively modest. In the last exchange of fallen soldiers between Ukraine and Russia, the Ukrainians received 15 bodies for every 1 Russian body. This probably says something about who has astronomical losses – although the fighting in Kursk also causes significant losses on the Russian side. But nowhere near the more than 30,000 Ukrainian casualties in Kursk alone – to no avail. Russia has an army of around 1 million men. What difference would 10,000 or 15,000 North Koreans make? All the propaganda that this shows that Russia is overstretched and undermanned is disproved daily on the battlefield. The Russians don’t need an extra 10,000 men who can’t do anything because they don’t speak the language and are foreign to the military culture.

Of course, there is an extensive military alliance between North Korea and Russia, which includes an obligation to come to each other’s aid, and it is known that North Korean troops receive part of their training in Russia, i.e. in the Far East, near the common border just south of Vladivostok. There has been speculation that a group may have been sent to Kursk to study real war. This is not impossible, but in that case they would not have participated in combat operations. One thing that trainers of Korean troops have emphasized is that the Koreans cannot understand that it can be expedient for tactical or strategic reasons to retreat from positions that are too costly in human lives to defend. For a Korean, this is shameful – you simply can’t do it. There is a reason why Koreans want their soldiers to be trained in Russia! But this alone shows the impossibility of integrating a small group of North Koreans into the Russian army. As “proof” of the Korean presence, a photograph of a Russian soldier with unmistakable Mongolian features is published. Where it was taken is unknown – but anyone who knows Russia knows that Mongolian features are anything but foreign here. The autonomous republics in southern Siberia are largely populated by Asian people, who superficially could pass for “Koreans”.

On this basis, it is safe to assume that there are no North Korean combat troops in Kursk – or anywhere else at the front. But what good is that story going to do anyway? This is clear from the latest statements by the clown Zelensky: “We are fighting North Koreans in Kursk. Where is the West….” Excuse me, but what business is it of the West? The Ukrainian army has a large number of foreigners in it, just as it is foreigners who guide their missile strikes, provide them with satellite data, etc. And finally, it was Zelensky himself who attacked the Kursk region – admittedly with Western help for planning etc. The West has no obligations to Ukraine – as in absolutely none. We have absolutely no interests in Ukraine either. We could care less who controls the Donbas – including the US. Indeed, if Ukraine were to disappear, it would mean absolutely nothing to us. The only people who have interests in this war are the Jewish hedge funds like Vanguard and BlackRock, who stand to lose significant amounts of money when the current Ukrainian government shuts down. That is why people like Zelensky, Anthony Blinken and Jacob Sullivan and others, who should all be based in Birobidzhan, are so keen to continue the war. No wonder you hear of many who look forward to the next holocaust with joyful anticipation. For the Americans, this war is about money and raw materials – not ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’, which are foreign words in Ukraine. However, North Korea has an obligation to come to Russia’s aid if Russia is attacked – as it was in Kursk – if Russia wants it. Incidentally, the West is not at war with North Korea either, but if South Korea sends pilots to Ukraine, the war may well spread to the Korean peninsula – and from there to the rest of the world, and I would be very surprised if this war did not very quickly turn into a nuclear war. That is what Zelensky wants. He is getting more and more shrill – as the little house is burning down around his ears and he watches his white powder go up in smoke. It is safe to assume that he will soon be removed – at the latest when there is no more money from the US, because then there is no more to share between friends – and no more kickbacks to send back to the corrupt American politicians who grant the money. The only question is whether he will be allowed to retire to one of his many properties abroad – or whether he will get a bullet between the eyes. As we all know, dead men tell no tales – and there’s plenty to tell.

Povl H. Riis-Knudsen

Translated by means of AI