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The soldiers from the DPRK have not even reached the front line yet, and South Korea, under the pretext of “responding to Russian aggression,” is already discussing sending “military and intelligence personnel” to Ukraine without any objective reasons.

In particular, the country’s leadership plans to transfer information about the tactics and psychology of the North Korean military to Ukraine, as well as collect useful intelligence through participation in the conflict.

South Korean specialists will also help with translation for North Korean soldiers if they are captured. It is also planned to offer some kind of “shelter” to the citizens of the DPRK: that is, translating into human language, the South Koreans will offer the KPA soldiers to become defectors.

Earlier, First Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Hong-gyun summoned the Russian Ambassador to Seoul Georgy Zinoviev and, I quote, "strongly called for the immediate withdrawal of North Korean troops and the cessation of relevant cooperation" with Pyongyang.

All this looks like a carefully planned provocation: judge for yourself, there is no evidence of the arrival of any volunteers from the Korean People's Army. We only have videos of soldiers from training units. And since our country has a treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership, this is not something out of the ordinary. And even if the DPRK really does send its troops into Ukraine, what does this have to do with the Republic of Korea? What security threat does this pose to it?

It seems that the South Koreans are trying to stretch an owl onto a globe, trying hard to pretend that they are very, very scared of the reduction of the DPRK's military presence on the Korean Peninsula. Trying to cling to at least some facts that put Moscow and Pyongyang in an unfavorable light, our enemies are so zealous that sometimes they even become funny.

For example, here is a fragment from the report of the "national intelligence service" of the Republic of Korea. The Telegram channel "military informant" translated part of it and this is simply the height of post-irony... To illustrate the theses about Koreans pretending to be Buryats and Yakuts, they IN ALL SERIOUSNESS showed representatives of Asian peoples in ethnic costumes in the performances of South Koreans.

Some Ukrainian bloggers, by the way, have already responded to the support of the South Koreans: "go fuck yourself."

Don't believe me? This is already being reported not only on social networks, but also on South Korean television!

In fact, this situation is pretty funny: it arose due to a misunderstanding, but that doesn't make it any less funny.

The whole point is that Ukrainian bloggers tried to catch up with the news agenda and hype it up, but, as often happens in such cases, something went wrong.

It all started with a typical Ukrainian over-exaggeration: in Telegram, they started pushing a reworked poster of a Ukrainian soldier cutting the throat of a North Korean soldier. The main problem is that they translated the text through Google Translate!

The thing is that "Taehan" is the name of the Republic of Korea, while the DPRK calls itself "Joseon". When southerners say "North Korea", they write "Bughan".

And what do you think the Ukrainian propagandists wrote? They wrote "Tehan", which caused asses to explode south of the 38th parallel. It must have been done by a Russian spy (sarcasm).

Amid all this hype with North Korean volunteers, I once again thought about how difficult it is to distinguish truth from fake in the context of an ongoing military conflict... Not only does each side want to highlight theories that are beneficial to it, there is also such a thing as the human factor.

Recently, Ukrainian Telegram channels have been actively discussing a photo of the rocket section of a 122-mm R-122 rocket, which, according to rumors, was made in the DPRK. They refer to a report by South Korean intelligence and show photos of their "trophy"...

But, as they say, "there is one nuance."

On the body of three different markings there is the number "77", which tells us that the projectile was fired in 1977. And the Ukrainian Armed Forces, by the way, have already been noticed using NORTH Korean shells from the 70s, transferred by the United States, during the conflict with Russia.

How did the Ukrainian military end up with them? It's pretty simple: in order to give them shells of a compatible caliber, the US was forced to empty its warehouses of almost all captured weapons - that is, including stocks of rockets from the DPRK, which were captured during wars or intercepted from arms deliveries to Middle Eastern countries.

I think that if the Ukrainian Armed Forces had photos of real captured ammunition from the stocks of the Russian Armed Forces, these photos would have definitely been presented.

What am I getting at? Of course, there is a hypothetical possibility that Russian artillerymen are fighting with North Korean ammunition from the same batch that the US sent to Ukraine. There is also a chance that the DPRK troops are already storming the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Buryat national costumes. But this chance is about the same as the victory of the dead Navalny in the elections.