A battalion of 3,000 North Korean soldiers will shortly join Russian troops in fighting Ukraine, marking Pyongyang’s full entry into the war.
Intelligence sources said the unit has been secretly training in Russia’s Far East ahead of deployment as part of a Russian airborne regiment.
“They are called the Buryat Battalion,” a senior Ukrainian military source told Politico. Buryatia is a remote region of Russia bordering Mongolia that the Kremlin has targeted heavily for military recruitment.
The Kyiv Independent quoted another Western intelligence source claiming that North Korea had sent 10,000 soldiers to join the Russian army.
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The US understands very well the different religious factions. The way the West Asia region was carved into countries by the colonial powers is identical to what they did in Africa. Deliberately creating countries with internal conflicts that can be exploited for destabilizing them.
However it is easy to tell apart Siberian ethnicities from Koreans. You can also tell apart Eastern Europeans from Western Europeans, leave alone the fact that Korean is an entirely different language from Russian or the languages of the region.
Edit: regarding the languages. In Buryat people speak dialects of Mongolian. Mongolian has a shared ancestry with Turk languages.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolic_languages
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The theory of an Altaic language family is generally disregarded by linguists today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages
I know. I’m not the one who claimed Turkish is related to Mogolian. The other guy said that.
Did you respond to the wrong person?
You both seemed to be in agreement on that, so…
No, I was not agreeing.
That was absolutely not clear from this brief comment:
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So you’re saying your comment was just violating our incivility rule?
Altaicist isn’t an insult. I didn’t say there was anything wrong with being an Altaicist. There are reputable linguists who are Altaicists.
I was just observing that the person I was talking to subscribes to the Altaicist hypothesis.
You know, this is the third comment I’ve made to you in the past half hour where I’ve had to correct your misframing of what I’ve said. Can you please stop twisting my words? It’s starting to feel personal.
Anything can be an insult in the correct context. I am not twisting your words or making anything personal.
You, however, clearly made a personal attack against another user above. Thank you for that clarification. It will be deleted and I would advise you to not do so again.
What’s with the downvotes? Are you all Altaicists here?
Who would have thought the worst thing about Lemmy was all the bad linguistics theories.
Edit: Oh, come to think of it, I guess bad anthropological theories are a bit of a staple of American reactionaries.