Propaganda leaflets dropped by Ukrainian drones over places where North Korean soldiers are hiding or moving in the Kursk region.

As we can see, Ukrainian UAV operators are aiming not only at the heads of DPRK mercenaries, but also at their new phobias - in the form of drones.

At the same time, giving them a choice: to surrender, escape from this horror and get a chance at a new life, or to die ingloriously and inevitably from an FPV drone or cluster munition.

Translation of the inscription: "Don't die in vain! Surrender is the way to survive."

https://t.me/russianocontext/5764

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[–] finitebanjo 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

I dont know but north korea openly sending their troops to help russians seems a bit unfair. EU time to wake up!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Bad choice for fanatics. Can't they drop something that makes it obvious how their regime abused them, then offer them better living conditions?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

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

[–] Valmond 1 points 5 days ago

Kim asks you to surrender!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I don't think they will consider surrendering to a ~~pack~~ flight of drones a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Consider this. A drone you didn't spot drops this on your feet.

Next drone might drop a grenade.

I would surrender.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Just traduce some social welfare and asylum information posters from the rest of Europe into North Korean.

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