The year is 2038. Korean-Ukrainian food is a hit new global phenomenon, drawing tourism to the region of "Little Korea" in Ukraine where the sounds of accordion music fills the air and you can pose to have a statuette made. The people live in peace since they defected from the Russian invaders en masse.
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I dont know but north korea openly sending their troops to help russians seems a bit unfair. EU time to wake up!
Sadly, they are not proper merceneries. A mercenary fights for money, but those guys probably know their families will be repressed if they surrender.
If I was the developer of the propaganda leaflet, I would add one sentence (after double-checking with a competent social engineer):
- "you get a new identity, at home they will think you died"
AFAIK Russia doesn't count their dead soldiers very carefully so it is quite likely that they will label everyone as dead when they go missing.
They should say "We have food, liquor and porn".
Yeah, but Zelenskyy poops out of his butt. Gross.
I have never LOLed so hard at a comment so stupid. 07
Attach one of those magic deserting cookies to it (c.f the koreean whi defected because if 1 cookie).
This is a very good example of something that i identify as 100% propaganda but still agree with. Dont die in vain, surrender. Another pointless fucking massacre russia started.
Dont die in vain, surrender.
They won't. The ones with families will likely rather die than surrender and I'd bet my cat that they only picked North Koreans with families. "Treacherous" North Koreans will have their entire families put in death camps.
Well now i dont just want kim to die but i want him to suffer a horrible death
up to eight generations
extends to children born in prison
So there's like some kids being born on those camps who get told they're they're because great-great-great-great-great-grandpa was a political enemy of the government.
I lean not yet three aren't, because NK isn't that old yet, but...
How will the NK govt know they surrendered and that they didn't just go missing, get obliterated by an explosive, or something else?
Bad choice for fanatics. Can't they drop something that makes it obvious how their regime abused them, then offer them better living conditions?
you always start by dislodging who will be easiest to dislodge: youthful critical thinkers who |aybe think this is all a sham. i agree that this is imperfect messaging, but i also presume some discussion went into that north koreans have almost zero media literacy for anything outside north korea by design, so you have to start with something that looks familiar to all of them to start getting the more pliable minds across the battle lines and start talking about what could work
I like that they used the old Communist style of esthetic to make it relatable to the Korean. Wonder what the art style is called
Just imagine the silliness of military recruiting GenZ kids into wars by using anime girls.
Oh wait.
I think the should also drop usb sticks with libraries full of basic facts that NK soldiers may have never seen.
Perhaps occasionally a cheap e-reader as well. Can't inform them when theyre in NK, but now that they're there and youre already dropping leaflets, might be useful to try to deprogram them as well.
libraries full of ~~basic facts~~ porn
Perhaps occasionally ~~a cheap e-reader~~ 50 gallon drums of hard alcohol.
If they don't get seduced into surrendering, they have a higher chance of getting caught with their pants down.. Regardless, I see it as a great way to cause confusion and disorder, anyway.
Cram as much porn into old smartphones and drop those.
Since porn is pretty quickly produced, we need to get a new sub category of porn where Western actors teach democratic history while having orgies
Finally, I can use my Sexy Ben Franklin At the Beach cosplay for good and not evil.
Have any North Korean soldiers surrendered or allowed themselves to be taken prisoner? I recall that there was a heavily wounded soldier who was captured but later died of his wounds, but I haven't heard about any other such incidents.
I believe most of em are so effectively brainwashed/family threatened that they put a grenade under their chin.
Imagine traveling to another country to help the invading force try to capture it...
As far as I'm currently aware the NK meat shields are only deployed in the Kursk Oblast.
I don't think they will consider surrendering to a ~~pack~~ flight of drones a good idea.
Consider this. A drone you didn't spot drops this on your feet.
Next drone might drop a grenade.
I would surrender.
Yes. The protocol of "how to surrender" would also be useful to add.
Obviously, one cannot surrender to an FPV drone - it doesn't have enough battery for the pilot to check if one follows through with the promise.
Throwing down all weapons, raising a white cloth and walking towards the opposing side might be a good enough signal for the pilot however - they might go looking for another target before the battery runs out.
For the leaflet to achieve results, it must lay out a good method of how to surrender. And that's a lot easier with Russians since they have a language which Ukrainians understand.
To Russians, one can write "go to frequency X MHz, drop encryption and negotiate surrender" or "go to Telegram channel X to arrange surrender" but no such hope with North Koreans.
I've seen a handful of Ukraine war shots.
There's a bunch where poor Russian conscripts drop their rifles and surrender to a drone, and the drone "flies" them to a nearby base.
The alternative being the drone being the last thing you ever see.
I can confirm, it happened a few times in Kursk, I've seen the videos.
However, the drone in question was a reconnaisance drone (those have long flight times). Ideally, you never see a reconnaisance drone - it sees you from beyond visual range well enough.
I believe the situation in Kursk was that Ukrainians deliberately sent a reconnaisance drone to take a close look, and perhaps also dropped a few leaflets. Russians then understood that their coordinates were known, they had no shelter available and a strike might come any second - and made the gestures to indicate surrender.
It also helped that the Russians in question were conscripts - young people undergoing military training. Support for the war is the lowest among this age group.
Oof these are genuinely terryfying looking images, pretty effective propaganda
I like the artstyle