Summary

A captured Russian soldier claimed North Korean troops stationed in Russia’s Kursk region endangered their allies by mistakenly firing on their own unit.

Video footage purportedly shows the soldier describing how North Koreans fired in the wrong direction during an assault, reportedly killing two Russian soldiers. North Korea has deployed around 8,000 troops to support Russia, raising international concerns about escalating conflict dynamics.

In return, North Korea is reportedly receiving money, food, and space technology from Russia. Moscow plans to form multiple units of North Korean soldiers integrated with Russian ethnic minorities.

209 points

These guys have been thrown into the middle of a conflict of similar looking people wearing similar camo and using similar weapons while speaking almost indistinguishable languages. This is probably not the only time this will happen.

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Oh no! Anyway.

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137 points

“All white ppl look the same!”

-NK, probably

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I mean, considering that the russians are (alllegedly) calling them “chinese” to be bigoted… that probably IS going to be the official line.

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78 points

“You white people all look the same”

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You’re joking but when I was living in Asia, people would constantly tell me I looked like whatever random white celebs they saw last from Brad pit, Di caprio, George Clooney or Wentworth miller from a fan of prison break and so on, and I even got Vladimir Poutine a few times. I could have understood Rupert Grint but the rest was just pure “cross race effect”. :D

Happens to everyone.

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4 points

You should reply with “you look like Jackie Chan!”

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9 points

For some reason most girls got angry at me when I did.

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8 points

darn. came to say this.

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It’s actually quite true …

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Hell yeah, this might be the timeline where Best Korea fools everyone and takes over both Russia and Ukraine moves all their people there, and opens a chain of kimchi-focused fast-casual restaurant/DahnMuDo centers called Kim’s Ki Brain and Body Center.

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Lets hope so.

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7 points

I give it 50/50 odds of happening in this timeline. It either happens or it doesn’t.

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5 points

Took the words right out of my mouth

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Fuckin hell I want to live in this timeline.

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Normally I would ask you what drugs you took to post this.

BUT: This timeline has become so crazy that I absolutely believe this without taking any drugs myself.

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No drugs, just drogas.

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I really feel sorry for those guys, they are recruited to fight someone else’s war in a foreign country and are literally exchanged for food, money and space technology like a cattle.

This shows how much the NK government values the lives of their citizens. Grim!

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The South Koreans did the same in Vietnam and it is said it kickstarted their economy, maybe it’s the same here.

!But not really!<

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