MAD Vladimir Putin has been forced to pad out his pathetic parades with North Korean cannon fodder while Russian troops are being massacred on the frontline.
Amongst the pomp, propaganda and weaponry, North Korean troops are to march through Moscow’s Victory Day parade for the first time, according to insiders.
Kim Jong-un has been supplying his fellow communist dictator with troops and weapons
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A young-looking North Korean fighter stares down the lens of a Ukrainian droneRex
May 9 parades are held throughout Russia as a celebration of its defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 that Putin has turned into a pillar of his nearly quarter-century in power and a justification of his invasion of Ukraine.
Victory Day is a means to showcase to the world the might of the Russian military machine, recall wartime sacrifice and garner national pride – all led by a showcase event in Moscow‘s Red Square.
Dozens of Putin’s North Korean cannon fodder are to join the parade in May as the mad dictator desperately attempts to show a substantial military – despite the total casualties of Russian troops standing at over 771,000.
Russian sources revealed news of North Korea’s participation in the parade to Japanese broadcaster NHK, adding that a military band is also to take part in a music event in the Russian capital in late August.
It will be the first time ever that North Korean military participates in World War II events in Russia.
Russia’s Defence Minister Andrei Belousov visited Pyongyang in November, where he apparently invited North Korean military units to take part in the 80th Victory Day celebrations.
The Putin puppet said on Wednesday that military personnel from 19 unspecified countries had been invited to the Victory Day parade -without sharing who they were.
He claimed that ten countries have confirmed their participation, adding that seven are former Soviet republics.
This year’s Victory Day parade is expected to follow suit of last year’s lacklustre celebrations, where Putin vowed Russia was “always” ready to strike the West and snubbed Britain in a snarling World War 2 rant.
Questions also surround whether the parade, for the third year in a row, will include just one measly tank – reportedly an 80-year-old T-34.
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AFPThe parades are a moment for Russia to showcase its military might – but last year was a scaled-back affair[/caption]
Last year’s only featured one tank
TwitterThe moment Russian smart TVs showing the parades were hacked with grim footage of the war[/caption]
Last year the mad Russian dictator did one of his shortest Victory Day speeches than ever before, lasting just seven minutes.
Putin also had his nuclear briefcase on show in Red Square as he issued a chilling warning of a new global war.
Plain-clothed aides carried the nuclear briefcase or ‘football’ – which could be used to start World War Three – as well as protection shields to use in the event of an assassination attempt against the dictator.
Three of his hulking Yars atomic missile launchers also thundered over the cobbles in a show of force to the West.
The military parade broadcast on smart TVs was also reportedly targeted by anti-war hackers for at least 20 seconds.
Footage suddenly appeared across Russia showing the reality of the war in Ukraine – fields of dead troops, wrecked equipment and scores of helmets of fallen soldiers.
It also lined up images of Moscow’s troops in a ‘Z’ formation next to German World War 2 soldiers forming a Nazi swastika.
Kim Jong-un’s troops continue to be sacrificed in Putin’s war as it was revealed North Koreans are being made to file through booby-trapped fields and blown up one-by-one like human mine detectors.
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East2WestA line of dead North Korean soldiers laid out in the snow shortly after they joined the front line[/caption]
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In the first account of close-up combat with North Koreans, Lieutenant Colonel “Leopard” said the troops are being used for Russia’s “meat grinder” strategy where the commanders are “unfazed by loss of life”.
There is a developing pattern of North Koreans being been sent on these effective suicide missions by the Russians.
Footage emerged recently of Kim Jong-un’s fighters being sent to jog through snowy no-man’s-land and fatally soak up Ukrainian ammo.
On a battlefield in Kursk, some two dozen men thought to be North Korean fighters huddle together before jogging out towards enemy lines.
Ukrainian veteran Vitaliy, 35, told The Times it was “like a dream for our mortars and machine gunners”.
A diary found on a dead North Korean soldier also illuminated the twisted sacrificial mentality that has been drilled into them by officials.
One entry read: “Defending the homeland is a sacred duty of every citizen and the highest mission.”
“I will join the front lines of this operation and sacrifice my life.”
Why is Kim helping Putin?
Kim Jong-un is giving Putin military aid after the two leaders signed an agreement to assist each other earlier this year.
They vowed their countries would support each other in the face of “aggression” against either one.
This pact was reached during Putin’s visit to the North Korean capital Pyongyang, his first since 2000.
Kim said the agreement took their relationship to “a new, high level of alliance”.
Both leaders feel they are in conflict with the West, and that they form a stronger force working together.
Putin has felt increasingly threatened since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, because Nato has given Ukraine increasing permission to use its heavy weapons.
Nato has also been expanding, with Finland and Sweden joining in 2022, leading to Putin feeling encircled and outnumbered.
He will feel that he needs to nurture all of his ally relationships in the increasingly tense global context.
North Korean troops tried to thwart Ukraine’s latest push into the Kursk region by storming the Ukrainian village of Makhnovka on Tuesday, in order to cut them off.
They attempted to out-flank the offensive’s forces and cut off some of Ukraine’s “best-equipped” brigades.
A previous Russian attempt to do the same thing had failed, with Zelenksy claiming on Saturday that an entire battalion of North Koreans and Russian paratroopers had been wiped out there.
This time, a few hundred North Koreans managed to push into the village, and Leopard’s battalion was called up to reclaim it.
“Our storm troops were sent in to conduct a counterattack,” he said.
They watched the North Koreans through drone cameras, and saw them driving pensioners out into the snow in order to take shelter themselves.
“Metre by metre, our infantry moved under the cover of the tanks and cleared the streets.
“They manoeuvred so that they wouldn’t be hit by the artillery.”
The colonel said the North Koreans were mixed in amongst Russian troops in an attempt to condeal their identity.
But the Ukrainians can tell them apart because the Koreans “don’t use drones yet, only the Russians”, Leopard said.
“But I suspect they are starting to learn this, and the longer the war drags on, the more likely they are to innovate.”
Leopard’s men successfully reclaimed the village with a firestorm of drones, vehicles and infantry.
He revealed that, unlike the Russians, the North Koreans refused to be taken alive.
They would either fight to the death or run and hide in the trees – although they seemed not to grasp that the Ukrainians could spot them easily with drones.
This account of intimate conflict with Kim Jong-un’s dispatched fighters is unprecedented as previous engagement has been mainly through remote drones.
An initial force of around 12,000 North Korean troops were shipped over to Russia, as first reported at the beginning of November.
After a training period, evidence began to emerge in December that they had begun actively fighting on the front line.
They have been most active in the Kursk region of Russia, where Zelenksy launched a second surprise offensive.
South Korean intelligence reported last month that Kim is plotting to send even more North Koreans over to the front line.
I was a North Korean soldier – troops will be used as ‘human shields’
A FORMER North Korean soldier said the troops in Russia will be looking to escape the battle in Ukraine “from the beginning”.
Speaking to The Sun before North Korean troops were deployed in Ukraine, Hyun-Seung Lee, a soldier in the Kim army in the early 2000s, said the soldiers in North Korea will be forced to go the war.
He said they will be young, so they won’t be that committed to the fighting.
He said: “It will be individuals at first, but more like as time passes, I think there’ll be like a larger number of group defections, including officers.”
That’s because, Lee says, the Russians will likely treat them as “expendable” and even more poorly than their own troops.
He said: “Russian soldiers don’t respect them as their fellow warriors
“They will treat them as their human shields.”
Eventually, the North Koreans will realise the hierarchy and how they are being seen as “disposable” by the Russians and look to flee, Lee said.
He added: “I think they’ll die without any impact.
“Putin and Kim Jong-un would expect more from them… they won’t get the expected results.”
“So, [troops will be told] ‘don’t pick up any material from Ukraine government or in the South Korean language’ and ‘they [claims in the propaganda they hear] are all fake’, and ‘it’s not true’ if someone defects, or ‘if you’re arrested, you’ll be tortured’.”
But Lee believes the soldiers will be susceptible to any psy-ops the Ukrainian government uses to try and get troops to defect.
He added: “I would say, if Ukraine’s government conducts a psychological strategy against North Korean soldiers then the chances are really high [of defection] because they don’t have real motivation. It’s not for money, right? They are not getting paid.
“And obviously it’s [their motivation] not defending your country, and then your parents, and yourself. So it’s just that they are mobilised by the North Korean supreme commander Kim Jong-un.”
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