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Ukraine captured and publicly interviewed a pair of them.
There is publicly available combat footage of North Korean assaults beaten back with drones.
The answer is a resounding: yes, they were demonstrably there helping with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Specifically in the Kursk region.
There is publicly available combat footage
Got any links?
Sure do. Content warning, it's combat footage:
And here is a link to some interviews of captured North Korean soldiers:
Edit: new video with more closeups: https://lemmy.world/post/25617122
Ukraine captured and publicly interviewed a pair of them.
Which, as the article states, Ukraine has kept from being interviewed by anyone other than the Ukrainian Presidential Press service.
I don't see any evidence of DPRK soldiers from the grainy videos you've posted. For months now, we've been getting 1080p Ukrainian drone footage of hits on Russians with such clarity that you can make out the soldiers' stubble. Why did this clarity suddenly disappear when Ukrainian and South Korean Intelligence started pushing the idea that DPRK soldiers were actively fighting?
You said you wanted more closeups, have more closeups of North Koreans dying for Russia's war: https://lemmy.world/post/25617122
Content warning: combat footage
That's standard for FPV drone videos. Ground interference reduces the signal in the last second, and you aren't putting 4k cameras on the one-time-use drones that get poor and EWed signal to start with. Link one has many faces seen, link two even also has a closeup at 4:27. The interviews are also full of closeups in high res.
You can choose to ignore the combat footage of North Koreans soldiers dying for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, you can ignore the interviews of captured North Koreans in Ukraine, you can ignore the intel reports from the US, Ukraine, and South Korea if you want. You can choose to believe whatever you want.
and you aren’t putting 4k cameras on the one-time-use drones that get poor and EWed signal to start with
Nonsense, you get better cameras in the cheapest of cheap mobile phones. The only reason for that kind of quality in this day and age is to deliberately obscure the detail.
With what signal are you going to transmit that detail? You can see the signal is not transmitting everything as-is.
Dunno mate, but if the quality is that bad the person piloting the drone doesn't know what the fuck either. But I doubt they are broadcasting anything live anyway, they could just download the SIM card when it gets back to base.
Edit: Whoops, double posted. Internet is being poopy today apparently.
I doubt they are broadcasting anything live anyway, they could just download the SIM card when it gets back to base
These are suicide drones. They ram into the target and explode to create casualties. There is no 'going back to base'. Everything they do is broadcast live as that is how they are controlled by the FPV pilot. Whatever poor signal they get through Russian jamming and ground interference is what there is.
Looking at the comments, has anyone actually read the article?
A rare occasion where Betteridge does not apply.
Yep! I think the more-rigorous version of Betteridge's law is: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by discarding the insinuation in the question.