North Korea’s Irregular Warfare After Ukraine

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North Korea continues to leverage historical irregular warfare tactics and asymmetric operations, recently drawing on combat experiences from Ukraine in its special operations forces. Analysts highlight concerns about the transferability of combat lessons from Ukraine to the Korean Peninsula.

Pyongyang has a long history of conducting irregular warfare and asymmetric operations: Look no further than the 1968 Blue House raid or the 1996 submarine incursion as the most pressing examples. More often than not, North Korea failed to achieve the intended objectives of its missions and lost its commandos. Despite failures, the regime pressed on, and now, over thirty years after the sub incursion, it has the combat experience of its special operations forces in Kursk to leverage. For policymakers and analysts, the more urgent question is that of transferability and operationalization of the Kursk lessons to the Korean The post North Korea’s Irregular Warfare After Ukraine appeared first on War on the Rocks.