8/ The propaganda video also highlighted infantry fire support: Type-75 107mm multiple rocket launchers and light mortars backing infantry. The Type-75, a North Korean copy of China’s Type-63, has 12 tubes, can fire Korean or Chinese ammo, and launch salvos up to 8.5 km.
9/ While this report focuses on the specific video, it's important to add that in February 2025, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported that Moscow and Pyongyang reached an agreement for Russian technical assistance in developing and mass-producing multiple drone types for North Korea
10/ By June 2025, Ukrainian military intel chief Kyrylo Budanov stated that Russia was assisting North Korea in producing Garpiya and Geran long-range kamikaze drones, modeled on Iran’s Shahed-136. Pyongyang also sent specialists to Moscow’s Technopark for UAV development.
11/ Russia’s support for North Korea goes beyond drones. Moscow has reportedly transferred at least one Pantsir air-defense system and provided data feedback from NK ballistic missile launches, helping improve Pyongyang’s missile accuracy and overall operational performance.
Is there any information about the South Korean response? One would think that they should be heavily invested in Ukraine.
12/ For the Korean Peninsula, this trajectory signals a more capable, modernized North Korean force, moving beyond outdated mid-20th-century playbooks. Globally, the risk extends further: Pyongyang has long supplied weapons to sanctioned actors, contributing to global instability
13/ While it’s uncertain how far North Korea can scale or replicate these lessons across its armed forces due to serious financial constraints, it’s clear that this experience won’t be buried, and Pyongyang will apply these insights wherever feasible.
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Low price precision at tactical, operational or even strategic levels. Yup, you're correct, if I were any sort of irregular or underfunded force I'd be all over that, especially since my alternative is most likely going to be ancient artillery from the early cold war.