Russia is going to use North Korea's troops as assault infantry - Defense Express

He spoke about this on the Espreso TV channel.

‘If we talk about the North Korean troops' presence on the territory of the Russian Federation, we can fully trust the data released by the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine that there should be, relatively speaking, so-called special operations forces. By local standards, these are troops that should be better trained than the rest of the infantry. However, they are said to be undergoing a short three-week retraining course according to Russian standards, which indicates that the Russians plan to use them as assault infantry with a corresponding cycle of survivability,’ the military expert said.

Kyrychevskyi believes that colonialist stereotypes about North Korean troops should be avoided.

‘In the Russian assault units, we are fighting against the social lower classes without proper education or military training, but even they pose significant problems. In the case of North Korea, we are talking about career military personnel with a certain amount of ideological training and fanaticism. Another observation worth making is that two communist states lived in isolation after the collapse of the Soviet Union - North Korea and Cuba. Now, North Korea is causing us a lot of problems, but what about Cuba? We only know that there is no electricity there, that's all,’ he added.