Russia’s use of North Korean missiles in its assault in Ukraine is giving Pyongyang a rare chance to test its weapons in combat and perhaps take away lessons that could improve their performance, a top US general said.
Yeeeeaaah that shit sounds like a whole lot of projection.
sprawling US Army Garrison Humphreys
First: screw this style of journalist writing. Second: who tf hears "sprawling foreign army garrison" and thinks "Oh yes it's great and totally not weird"?
The US will be deploying missile systems with mid-range capability to the Indo-Pacific region soon,
Toldja, projection.
The North Korean missiles sent so far are similar in size and flight dynamics to Russia’s Iskander series, weapons experts have said
Could it be that gasp those WERE iskander missiles?! Nah, can't be. Must be perfidious Axis of Evil somehow making their weapon systems more interchangeable and easier to mix than the vaunted NATO "standardisation".
showed that the US Patriot air defense system has so far been largely effective in countering Russia’s missiles
"The enemy is both weak and strong", etc. If your "patriot" system is soo good and effective, why are you afraid? Surely they'd just shoot down whatever inferior garage junk them orcs cobbled together from pipes and houseware chips?
sending massive amounts of munitions to Russia, which are interoperable with the Soviet-era systems being used in Ukraine.
See my earlier point. There hasn't been a soviet union for over thirty years. Iskander system was developed after USSR was destroyed. The fuck kinda "interoperability" you are babbling about? Heck, if they said it was magically interoperable with the Tochka-U system, I still would call bs, but would at least have an area of plausibility. Heck, they could have even done some further smearing and claim that was the missile used to strike the market in Donetsk - since that one was a Tochka-U, and was blamed on Russia (despite, ya know, all the evidence).
Garbage article. You should feel bad for hurting my eyes with it, Yogthos
I find these articles mostly amusing because they expose how worried the empire is. Most of western media is painful to read because any actual news is buried in layers of propaganda.
ee my earlier point. There hasn’t been a soviet union for over thirty years. Iskander system was developed after USSR was destroyed. The fuck kinda “interoperability” you are babbling about? Heck, if they said it was magically interoperable with the Tochka-U system, I still would call bs, but would at least have an area of plausibility. Heck, they could have even done some further smearing and claim that was the missile used to strike the market in Donetsk - since that one was a Tochka-U, and was blamed on Russia (despite, ya know, all the evidence).
Sure, could be. Except the article is specifically talking about ballistic missiles. And again - are we supposed to believe that shells, made in DPRK nowadays are compatible with the guns and launchers used by Russia? Solely because they're based off of the same soviet mould?
If anything Russia is testing DPRK’s weapons against American/NATO tactics and weapons of war. The DPRK is dedicated to peace above all else and would much rather spend their meager resources on feeding, housing and giving leisure and comfort to the Korean workers. The Korean People’s Armed Forces are 100% dedicated to just two objectives.
Objective 1. Self defense against the US, Japan and any other Western nation (I don’t care if Japan is ethnically East Asian, they’re Western at this point) and any other threat to their homeland.
Objective 2. The defense from takeover by the puppet regime in the fictitious “South Korea” and when the time is right, the liberation of all of Korea, and to move the historical capital of the Unified People’s Republic of Korea from Pyongyang to its proper home to Seoul (or Kim Il Sung City).
The DPRK is one of the few nations on earth with a military of their size that has ZERO interest in conquering even the tiniest speck of dust outside of their nation, especially since the express purpose of jucheism is communism in one nation with the goal of stage 3, the elimination of Korean nationalism (even if by force) and borders to join the international community in the worldwide international worker’s state. Even if this process will have to be over a span of centuries.
The “South Korean” state is an American puppet government, and constantly causing all the trouble. During the famines in the 90s, the DPRK wanted, as an act of mercy to hand over the handful of foreign refugees in their nation given that they weren’t sure they could guarantee they be fed and Seoul refused because they knew what good headlines it would be if an America/European refugee in the DPRK starved to death even though the West themselves treat their refugees like garbage.