{"id":67661,"date":"2024-11-05T09:18:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T00:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/05\/north-korea-troops-russia-ukraine-war-kim-jong-un-putin"},"modified":"2024-11-06T00:58:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T15:58:35","slug":"inexperienced-poorly-trained-and-underfed-the-north-korean-troops-heading-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67661","title":{"rendered":"Inexperienced, poorly trained and underfed: the North Korean troops heading to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un says his army is the \u2018strongest in the world\u2019 but they are vulnerable to illness and none have seen combat before<\/p>\n<p>Depending on whom you ask, they are the boost that Russian forces need to make a significant breakthrough in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a>, or they are simple cannon fodder, destined for repatriation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/30\/north-korea-troops-russia-kursk-ukraine-lloyd-austin\">body bags<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After weeks of speculation, Nato and the Pentagon have confirmed that about 10,000 North Korean troops are in Russia, with most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/31\/north-korean-soldiers-at-ukraine-border-says-us\">massing near Ukraine\u2019s border<\/a> in Kursk, where the Kremlin\u2019s forces have struggled to repel a Ukrainian incursion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/05\/north-korea-troops-russia-ukraine-war-kim-jong-un-putin\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un says his army is the \u2018strongest in the world\u2019 but they are vulnerable to illness and none have seen combat beforeDepending on whom you ask, they are the boost that Russian forces need to make a significant breakthrough in Ukraine, or they a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,421,40,419,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67674,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67661\/revisions\/67674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}