Ukraine has reshaped the battlefield with cheap, expendable drones. South Korea reads the signals and wants to match the scale. North Korea has been reading the same signals through a more direct channel.

Since late 2024, North Korea has rotated thousands of troops through Russia s war in Ukraine, alongside what is currently the world s most combat tested drone force tied with Ukraine s, of course. Ukrainian defense intelligence reports that some of those troops have begun returning home and moving into instructor roles within the North Korean military.What exactly they are bringing back is harder to pin down from the The post South Korea’s 500,000 Drone Warriors Will Be a Hollow Force appeared first on War on the Rocks .

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  • Source: War on the Rocks
  • Published: May 15, 2026 at 07:15 UTC
  • Category: War
  • Topics: #defense · #military · #geopolitics · #war · #conflict · #south-korea

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