{"id":67715,"date":"2024-11-08T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/08\/ukrainians-ready-for-north-korean-troops-russia-war"},"modified":"2024-11-08T18:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T09:00:05","slug":"they-will-just-die-uselessly-ukrainians-ready-for-north-korean-troops-joining-russias-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67715","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They will just die uselessly\u2019: Ukrainians ready for North Korean troops joining Russia\u2019s war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers holding chunk of enemy territory in Kursk have been learning Korean phrases and are unconcerned by threat from reinforcements<\/p>\n<p>Vitalii Ovcharenko, a Ukrainian soldier, has been learning a new language: Korean. \u201cI\u2019ve picked up a few phrases. They are: \u2018Hands up, drop your weapon and come to us slowly,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cAlso: \u2018Throw off your body armour and helmet.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vitalii.ovcharenko.5\/\">Ovcharenko<\/a> has been mugging up with the help of a three-page printed guide. It lists words in Ukrainian, their Korean equivalent, and a helpful transliteration.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/08\/ukrainians-ready-for-north-korean-troops-russia-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers holding chunk of enemy territory in Kursk have been learning Korean phrases and are unconcerned by threat from reinforcementsVitalii Ovcharenko, a Ukrainian soldier, has been learning a new language: Korean. \u201cI\u2019ve picked up a few phrases. They&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4478,"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":[221,40,419,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","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\/67715","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\/4478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67716,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67715\/revisions\/67716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}