The North Korean military's path that I didn't expect..."Kim Jong Un's impatience revealed" [Y transcript]

■ Host: Kim Sun-young Anchor
■ Appearance: Kim Geum-hyuk, former policy adviser to the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs

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◇ Kim Geum-hyuk: As it is reported now, a large number of North Korean troops have been spotted moving to the Kursk front, and today's report says that some of them have gone into Ukraine to fight, and all of them have been killed and only one has lived, isn't it? But when we put the contents of those reports together, what we can find is that one of the various tactics that the Storm Corps currently has is a tactic that quickly penetrates into small units. To explain, the Storm Corps is the Light Infantry Brigade. They're very light-armed, as the horse itself suggests, and they're very light-armed, they're not very heavily armed, they're very restricted, they're very quick to attack, they're going to disrupt the rear of the enemy, they're going to kidnap, assassinate, they're going to cut off the supply, they're going to be able to use them for the purposes of going deep into the Ukrainian front and cutting off the retreat of the Ukrainian forces that are currently in Kursk.

It's the opposite of what all the experts predicted. We actually thought that we would stay in the Far East for a month or two and then go to the front line, but against all expectations, North Korea pushed all of its forces to the front line in two weeks. So the information that there is currently fighting in the Ukrainian territories is also likely to be true, I think so.

◆ Anchor: Can we guess why we put it in so much faster than we expected?

◇ Kim Geum-hyuk: If we can guess a little bit of what North Korea had in the first place, isn't the North Korean military not put into the front line with the organization of the Korean People's Army, but they're going out to the front line in Ukraine disguised as people from the Russian army, Mongolian people, or Asian people living in Russia? I was going to do that, but all of this became known so quickly. Since so many things are known so quickly than the original plans of the North Korean military or Russia, there are public resentments from the international community and various responses from the Republic of Korea, right?

In that sense, Russia and North Korea need to speed up the speed war, that is, speed up the time. And I think I'm anxious that we should do something preemptively before NATO, the United States, or the Republic of Korea responds. If we look into this by limiting the domestic situation in North Korea, isn't it the end of the year? The end of the year is quite important in North Korea. Because at the beginning of the year, North Korea always promises its people that they will do something this time. North Korea has promised to achieve various achievements that can appeal to residents, such as economic and diplomatic achievements, but in reality, North Korea has not achieved much in 2024.

◆ Anchor: Only the flood damage was huge.

◇ Kim Geum-hyuk: So maybe he was anxious to show something to the residents now. On the one hand, North Korea is trying to get a lot out of Russia by bleeding North Korean soldiers while emphasizing blood alliance. In that sense, the sooner North Korea acts, the faster it can pressure Russia and get what Russia promised to North Korea, so this is an achievement for North Korea in a way. It seems to be a valid analysis at the moment to see that everything has been accelerated in order to achieve such an outcome.

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: Jeong Eui-jin, Editor of the Digital News Team