Telegram channels and separate media exploded with the report that North Korea is mobilizing 1.4 million people for a “holy war”. Given recent statements by intelligence sources that the DPRK is training 10,000 Russian soldiers in the Far East to participate in the war in Ukraine, such news is perceived as apocalyptic. Even if it is clear that not all of these 1.4 million will come to us. http://surl.li/clcfvl. The details of the throw-in are further in the material.
Manipulation
The figure of 1.4 million does appear in the news. However, it is not about mobilization. And in order to understand this, it is enough to read Reuters, which has long and carefully followed the next tension between North and South Korea: http://surl.li/pjrcdm
On October 16, North Korea’s state broadcaster reported that 1.4 million people had applied to join the army in the past week, allegedly because of Seoul’s drone “provocations” that had “raised tensions to the brink of war.”
The angry rhetoric came after North Korea last week accused Seoul of launching drones over Pyongyang that dropped “a large number” of anti-North Korean leaflets. In response, the North on Tuesday blew up inter-Korean roads and railway lines on its side of the border and warned that the South would “pay a heavy price,” Reuters reports. http://surl.li/xsegvt http://surl.li/efoexa
It was not a mobilization in the way it happens in our country.
If the North Korean mouthpiece is to be believed (which it really shouldn’t be), young people, including students and youth league officials, have signed petitions to join the army. They are going to fight in a “holy war”, and in short, they want to destroy South Korea. This is not the first time that such a mass desire to fight has appeared in North Korea.
Last year, the state media reported that 800,000 citizens had voluntarily joined the North Korean army to fight against the United States.
Also in 2017, it was reported that nearly 3.5 million workers and party members volunteered to serve (or were forced to do so). http://surl.li/iazxjj
CONCLUSION
In the DPRK, there is no mass mobilization against the background of yet another tension between the south and the north.
It is not the first time that mass killings have appeared in the DPRK.
The news has a trigger effect on Ukrainians, as North Korea is increasingly intervening in the Russian-Ukrainian war and, according to intelligence, is preparing 10,000 soldiers who it plans to cross the borders of Russia and Ukraine
