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Missile Strike Near Donetsk Eliminates 6 North Korean Officers (www.kyivpost.com)

submitted 1 week ago by CityPop@lemmy.today to c/world@quokk.au

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Six officers from North Korea were among the 20 soldiers killed in a Ukrainian missile strike on Russian-occupied territory near Donetsk, intelligence sources say.

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[–] Lemmynated@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hmm and what were they doing there I wonder.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No need to wonder, this has been covered well enough.

The DPRK doesn't have many, if any, soldiers, or officers, with combat experience from a modern battlefield. Given their geopolitical situation, that is a problem for them.

So they get to provide one of their primary allies (Russia) with some level military support, and acquire some much needed practical and relevant experience that they can bring back to their own militaries and military industries.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This was certainly an important lesson.

[+] circuscritic@lemmy.ca -13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I also like to laugh and make jokes about people who die after being born into totalitarian dictatorships, and have to join the military to feed themselves, or their families.

Oh wait, no, I don't.

You can support Ukraine, and not be glib about, or rejoice in, specific deaths of soldiers on a battlefield.

A good first step would be to stop watching war porn of soldiers getting merked with grenade drops, if that's something you do, I don't know.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Their comment was hardly, "lololol dead soldiers", learn to not be triggered so easily.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well that's good. That would have meant my description of it being glib, would have been inaccurate.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Your comment is not an overreaction for calling it glib, smartass.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would you mind giving me a list of the type of jokes that are, and are not, okay for me to call out in this context?

Because first it was because it's wasn't "lololol dead soldiers", then it was just that I called it out... so I'm confused.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're confused because you're being obtuse, fool.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, you came in and tried to apply obscure and undefined rules to my speech.

When I politely ask you to define those rules, you instead tell me that I'm a fool.

Someone here is certainly a fool, but it's not me.

[–] OutForARip@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago

Tourism

[–] credo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Threat of nuclear response imminent.

[–] OutForARip@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Ooh the North Korea final warning