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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago

This is great news. OTOH, these deserters condemned 3 generations of their family back home.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Yeah they’ll do that. You gotta make people want to stay

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

18 doesn't seem like many. North Korea must have sent thousands

[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago

Around 10k total I think

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

I think I read somewhere 3000 to that unit / region

[–] [email protected] 65 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

my first thought when nk sent troops was what an opportunity to get out of nk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

NK probably loves the idea of less people?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

They aren't going to want those 3000 troops coming back and talking about their time in the west.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I hope they all find better lives and live them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I just hope they are all single and don't have families left.

[–] [email protected] 133 points 10 hours ago (9 children)

Imagine living in a 1950's time bubble. You are being constantly told through propaganda that your military force is cutting edge and that it can easily overwhelm any enemy.

Then you are being sent to fight on a battlefield where everyone has better gear than you, where you are confronted to weapons that are so far advanced beyond anything that you've ever seen they might as well be magic. Then you see said weapons completely obliterate your comrades without giving you a chance to even see the enemy who operates them.

You only obeyed so far because you feared what your government might do to you if you didn't. Now you've found something that you fear even more.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You're also used to standing around guarding a border all the time, not experiencing actual combat at all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

And by "guarding the border" it really means "shooting anyone trying to escape"

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

imagine them seeing the drone for the first time.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure they even hear them. I've watched 1,000 Russians die, clueless anything was targeting them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

Some, it depends how high they are. I've also seen a lot of em being chased. It's good for the lulz.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

For the first and last time 😟

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

North Korean battle theme in Ukraine:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I imagine the sound from when you lose on The Price is Right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

With the yodeling guy going up the ramp just before!

[–] [email protected] 124 points 11 hours ago

Well that's one way to escape North Korea I guess.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (4 children)

How pathetic does Russia have to be to be bringing NORTH KOREAN troops into the war. It would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

What's pathetic about it? Cannon fodder is cannon fodder. They can hold a rifle just as well as any other person, and they can use it to kill. Acting like getting foreign troops helping you is somehow beneath you in a war is insane

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 minutes ago

I'm just saying there isn't anything further down in the barrel.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Sadly, this.

Fictional, but

ONE OUT OF TWO GETS RIFLE. THE ONE WITHOUT, FOLLOWS HIM! WHEN THE ONE WITH THE RIFLE GETS KILLED, THE ONE WHO IS FOLLOWING PICKS UP THE RIFLE AND SHOOTS!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Probably my third favorite Jude Law roll.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

I would say his character in A.I. would be my second favorite. Maybe not the greatest film, but he did a great job in his role. #1 would definitely be I ♡ Huckabees. Such a great movie, and great cast too.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I know a good number of North Koreans would love to defect if there weren't going to be consequences for their families back home. Put those people in a situation where they can just disappear and have it explained as being honorably slain in combat? Seems like a golden opportunity if the country they defect to doesn't just send them back.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

I know a good number of North Koreans...

How do you know so many North Koreans?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I'm a quarter NK. All the NKs I know are dead tho

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