r/woahthatsinteresting • u/Dazzling_Ad1457 • 3d ago
North Korea releases video showing soldiers training in the winter
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u/CuteRamProgrammer 3d ago
Well I guess if we ever get into a naked fight in winter with no weapons we should be very worried.
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u/LoveAndViscera 3d ago
Nah, this is exactly what it looks like when a bunch of high school guys go camping in Colorado.
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u/KaasKoppusMaximus 2d ago
Me and the boys in aspen after downing 3 beers and someone put on Korn so now we hyped
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u/Gamer_Logged 2d ago
Dude, Korn is such a fucking good band.
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u/Personal-List-4544 2d ago
I won't lie. I slept on em for awhile, but recently started getting into them.
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u/Lancaster61 2d ago
You joke but this is for real. Around late April to May-ish, people legit ski and snowboard with their shirts off.
Source: am in Colorado.
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u/XXXCEDRIN_PM 3d ago
It's a demonstration of control. If they're "willing" to carry a log through freezing water in the dead of winter without clothes on, you bet your ass they'll crawl through three miles of mud just to shoot you in the head while you sleep.
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u/Extreme-Ad723 3d ago
Just to be exploded by a predator drone or an overwatch team with thermal scopes.
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u/Ok-Cancel-3114 3d ago
Let's get down to business, to defeat the Huns...
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u/myfashionkillz 3d ago
😂 I was thinking this. The live-action Mulan
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u/Noja8787 2d ago
lol imagine if they made a real live action Mulan movie! That would suck so bad haha good thing Disney isn't stupid enough to do that 😊
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u/Far_Being_8644 2d ago
Imagine if they removed all the things about Mulan that made her mulan too, wouldn’t that be crazy.
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u/Alyswundrlan 2d ago
Actually, N Korea use to kidnap S Korean actors to make their own movies. Fun fact.
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u/Matthew-_-Black 2d ago
Did they send me daughters, when I aaaasked for sons?
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u/Ok-Cancel-3114 2d ago
You're the saddest bunch I ever met...
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u/mezasu123 2d ago
But you can bet before we're through
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u/LuckySEVIPERS 2d ago
Incidentally, yes, this would be a part of Northern Korean history. The Northern regions historically had to deal with the angry horse-folk.
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u/CurrentGlassPainter 3d ago
But why do they have ski mask with no shirts?
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u/Acceptablepops 3d ago
For toughness
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u/skierdud89 3d ago
To prove they can be just as homoerotic as any other military in the world. Signed a Navy Veteran.
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u/Bobo_Baggins_jatj 2d ago
No one can out-homo the USN, USMC, and US Army junior enlisted.
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u/itsapotatosalad 3d ago
Probably hiding that half of them died because f pneumonia making this video and had to be replaced with different actors.
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u/Flagrantepiphany 3d ago
Bdsm is huge in North Korea. The chains in the video also highlight bdsms growing popularity even outside of pyeongyang
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u/SNaKe_eaTel2 2d ago
The chains are bronze with thermal fractures - the hardest metal they are capable of forging.
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u/XXXCEDRIN_PM 3d ago
No shirt to make it more miserable, ski mask to remove their identity. They aren't people. They're soldiers. It doesn't matter what country you're from, your military does the same shit.
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u/deborahwv29s 3d ago
time to "BE A MAN"
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u/Isparza 3d ago
🎶Be a man! As swift as a raging river 🎶
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u/Frame_of_Mind20 3d ago
Be a man! With all the force of a great typhoon
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u/ElectricErik 2d ago
Be a man! With all the strength of a raging fire!
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u/Axiom06 3d ago
BE A MAN! With all the strength of a raging fire!
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u/whornography 3d ago
Mysterious as dark side of the moooooooon (which happens to he our Glorious Leader, Kim Jong Un's, ancestral homeland, deity that he isssssssss).
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u/Natural_Hedgehog_899 3d ago
This is dumb. Modern wars are hardly fought in close combat.
This isn’t Vietnam
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u/WhippingShitties 3d ago
Hey just let me be gay for a lil bit dude, it's Christmas.
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u/torgomada 3d ago
i'm pretty sure most of the purpose of nk's military is to look cool
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u/mackzorro 2d ago
Every army still does log pt and jumping into cold water. Most of them don't make a semi erotic movie about it
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u/WhiteWolfOW 2d ago
They’re not showing fighting skills tho. They’re showing resistance and endurance. That’s still pretty relevant
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u/futureman45 3d ago
No match for drones in Ukraine
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u/NowIDoWhatTheyTellMe 3d ago
Seriously. No matter how jacked and fit you are, one little bomb dropped by a drone and it doesn’t matter whether your body fat is 5% or 50%…you’re dead.
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u/Few-Signal5148 3d ago
They also have no field medics…
The battle footage is brutal as some get shot and then realize that's it, so they just lay there to die as their comrades keep moving forward.
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u/Mountain_Economist_8 2d ago edited 2d ago
Where is this footage/from what war?
Edit: i don’t know why people are being so sassy in response, I was fully aware that NK had sent some soldiers into Ukraine for Russia but this only happened like a month ago. Also there was this pretty big war against North Korea that the USA actually fought in so it was just as likely that the footage being referred to was from that war (yes they had film cameras in 1950 getting war footage)
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u/Few-Signal5148 2d ago
From last week in Ukraine.
On the internet…on every single social media site and news agency.
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u/Gruneun 3d ago
First thing I thought was, “Now show them running like cockroaches as a drone comes at them like a giant foot.”
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u/Burn_N_Turn1 3d ago
Oof, that one that lost his footing a little bit when they were crossing the river. You just KNOW he is immediately a swiftly getting shot in the head
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u/Greatgrandma2023 3d ago
That looks suspiciously like AI. At best it's one very elite unit.
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u/NeonOrangePuppy 3d ago
Even the "well-trained" NK units are trash. We could ask the hundreds, possibly thousand 7th Army troops at the Ukrainian border... but they're dead.
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u/iampoopa 3d ago
Kim certainly isn’t going to spend money on stupid military shit like food, medical care, winter coats…
Not when you can just make promo videos of men rolling in the snow.
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u/Raus-Pazazu 2d ago
There probably is a few small units of elite specialized troops that are tough as nails with proper training and the mindset of a true soldier, but they're not getting deployed more than a mile away from Kim.
I also imagine that North Korea is likely to send its most disposable and unwanted soldiers to fight in Ukraine. Russia gets more cannon fodder it can send in while letting it's own troops rest up and heal up, North Korea gets rid of undesirables, and Ukraine gets battered without a pause. It's a win-win for the both of them, and a loss for Ukraine.
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u/rshark78 2d ago
You say they're trash but just wait until you need a log moving across a river in the middle of winter during a shirt shortage. Then you'll be eating your words
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u/XXXCEDRIN_PM 3d ago
It doesn't matter if they're trained well if they'll do literally anything they're told. Like, for example, carry a log through freezing water in the dead of winter with no clothes on.
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u/ExpensiveFill2178 3d ago
This isn’t AI, it’s been out for a few years. They’re definitely not elite though
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u/Urg_burgman 2d ago
No these are the elite. They're clearly being fed enough calories to retain their muscle mass. You can tell which soldiers are favored by how well fed they look
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u/StevenSmiley 3d ago
How do you people think it looks anywhere close to ai? It is as real as real can be.
https://www.newsweek.com/north-korea-erotic-propaganda-video-military-1782672
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u/std_out 2d ago
No it's real but it's all for show. they are more like performers than actual soldiers. they most certainly won't ever see combat.
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u/bolen84 3d ago
Take this propaganda video and juxtapose it against the vids that have come out over the past couple weeks of these North Korean troops just being absolutely destroyed by drones. The facial expressions you see from these soldiers right before impact is fear and confusion. They have no idea what drone warfare entails and it’s obvious they’ve been put into a situation that they haven’t been trained for.
Run in the snow without a shirt on all you like. You’re just going to be exhausted and cold by the time that drone blows you up.
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u/relative_unit 2d ago
Not AI, just very little that happens in this video is in any way applicable to 99% of modern combat situations. They're not getting into a boxing ring with Ivan Drago, they're getting shipped to Ukraine, where they're going to get sniped by drones before they can finish their first set of 10 group log presses.
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u/WowIwasveryWrong27 3d ago
Carrying a log in the snow and breaking ice sheets with your head are definitely the mark of a powerful soldier in modern warfare.
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u/BenMic81 2d ago
It is indeed the most advanced training method possible. After all the log carrying will directly translate into acute small unit tactics and the ice sheet head thing is good for drone warfare.
Also note that shirtless in freezing temperatures lowers body temp so thermal signature is slightly reduced. Totally worth freezing your unit to death in less than a day!
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u/gosluggogo 3d ago
All that nonsense just to get blown up by a homemade Ukrainian drone
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u/Relevant_Cat_1611 3d ago
Yeah, only to get fucked up on the frontlines of Ukraine for no reason. Pure theatrics, they're not putting these guys on the the field
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u/jesterOC 3d ago
This is a year old. Here is a video making fun of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SybnzEKrtD0
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u/Chest_RockweII 3d ago
Seems kinda gay
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u/Frodo_VonCheezburg 2d ago
NK Army spokesman: "IT ISN'T GAY!!! We NEVER kiss or make eye contact!!"
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u/stargoons 3d ago
So old
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u/LessThanMyBest 3d ago
Statistically most of these dudes have either starved or been blown up by now
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u/HippolytusOfAthens 3d ago
Why does the narrator sound like the Count from Sesame Street, but in reverse?
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u/Dahleh-Llama 3d ago
These motherfuckers think pneumonia and hypothermia are a fucking joke
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u/jdowHitime 3d ago
Fu*king around and finding out in the Ukraine. Hope they all defect and tell the world just how shitty it really is in N. Korea.
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u/GuyFromLI747 3d ago
The narrator sounds like he took happy pills.. they can train like that all they want, they are Just a paper tiger and would run for freedom given the chance
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u/PancakeParty98 3d ago
It’s funny but also scary how many people saying confidently this is AI. It’s not. Too many little things a robot wouldn’t know to do, like snow that is trapped in foot treads, and I don’t see any morphing bodies. Also that frame shift at the end.
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u/yeahnahtho 3d ago edited 2d ago
Two things that are amazing:
This video is incredibly horny.
An old video with some sped up footage is immediately assumed to be "generative AI" by people just seeing it, and that's pretty funny.
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u/GoontenSlouch 3d ago
I like this video of a couple of North Korean soldiers in Ukraine fighting a drone, the comments are preety good but I do feel bad for them going into modern warfare and seeing a drone for the first time...
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u/ExtrapolationDiode 3d ago
Every other nation: weapons, tactics, squad maneuvers, orienteering
North Korea: HomOeRoTIc TrEE pUnCHinG
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u/Miyagidokarate 3d ago
These aren't real North Korean soldiers because these guys have clearly eaten food at some point.
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u/BennyBingBong 3d ago
Oh now we definitely don’t wanna fuck with them. There is nothing that could be drone about that pure North Korean ferocity. I mean done. I said done.
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u/FormerConversation50 3d ago
They had me going UNTIL they were chopping the planks made out of snow.
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u/glitchycat39 3d ago
I'm reminded of those Russian Spetznas videos from just before they invaded Ukraine. Y'know, the ones that had the likes of Fled Cruz fearwanking about how our pathetic "woke army" would be destroyed by the mere visage of the mighty Russian hordes.
Methinks this lot will die to HIMARs like all the rest.
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u/Icy_Yam5049 3d ago
North Korea doesn’t have enough money to put clothes in their propaganda videos?
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u/vAPIdTygr 3d ago
Feel free to do all that in snowy winters in US and we’ll look at you bored while aiming a rifle from 300 yds away.
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u/No_Satisfaction_3589 3d ago
Haha sure, not that western propaganda isn't shit but this isas ridiculous.
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u/ElectricMan324 3d ago
These types of videos are so homo-erotic.
I mean no kink shaming, but my dudes you are not giving off the vibe you intend.
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u/physicshammer 3d ago
and you can see the results in Khursk. I actually feel much worse for the North Koreans than the Russians, because the Russians have no excuse to be ignorant, whereas North Koreans never had the chance to read and learn for themselves.
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u/Shadow_Figure666 3d ago
And still getting bombed by drones controlled by Ukrainians far away 😭😭😭 lowkey it's fucked up he's sending all of them directly to their deaths. Seen one Korean soldier off his parter trying to take down a drone.
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u/senorbeaverotti 3d ago
There only weakness is pornography