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Rear Adm Karl O. Thomas, commander, Task Force CTF 70 spoke with International Press on the deck of USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) during the 2018 International Fleet Review at Jeju island.
"I'm very proud of the #Sailors who make our operations possible and I'm proud of our ability to work with our #ROK allies and our partners at sea.
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command U.S. Navy U.S. Pacific Fleet U.S. 7th Fleet

All North Korean soldiers in Russia's Kursk Oblast could be killed or wounded in action by April 2025, ISW report | Ukrainska Pravda

According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), North Korean troops participating in combat operations in Russia's Kursk Oblast are experiencing critically high casualty rates.

pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/01

Ukrainska Pravda · All North Korean soldiers in Russia's Kursk Oblast could be killed or wounded in action by April 2025, ISW saysBy Ivan Diakonov
#Ukraine#rok#eu

North Korean Solider: I WANT TO LIVE IN UKRAINE!

WTAF!!😂

In addition to MORE captured soldiers from North Korea, there will undoubtedly be others. It is only a matter of time before our Defenders🇺🇦 manage to capture more. And no one in the world should have any doubt that the Russian army is dependent on military assistance from the DPRK.

Putin began three years ago with NATO ultimatums and attempts to rewrite history, and now he cannot do without such military assistance from #Korea Pyongyang.

#Ukraine is ready to hand over his people to Kim Jong-un if he can organize their exchange for our soldiers who are held captive in Russia.

For those North Korean soldiers who do not want to return, there may be some other ways. In particular, those Koreans who wish to.

Russians are killing injured North Koreans to stop them receiving care in Ukraine.

North Koreans Die for Putin. The DPRK troops suffered losses in Kursk and, out of fear, killed Kadyrov's troops, - GUR

The language barrier remains a difficult obstacle to coordination of actions. North Korean soldiers opened "friendly fire" on "Akhmat", 8 "Kadyrovites" killed.

ВІЙСЬКА КНДР ЗАЗНАЛИ ПЕРШИХ ВТРАТ НА КУРЩИНІ ТА З ПЕРЕЛЯКУ "НАДВОХСОТИЛИ" КАДИРІВЦІВ #ГУРінформує

#Ukraine#EU#Europe

South Korean President and would-be putschist Yoon survives impeachment vote.

Apparently the Korean political Right doesn’t think a coup attempt is a problem: so his People Power Party boycotted the vote.

The same right-wing arseholes are everywhere nowadays: it’s not just “the West”.

bbc.com/news/articles/cpw22k2z

www.bbc.comSouth Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol survives impeachment voteLawmakers narrowly failed to pass a bill to censure Yoon Suk Yeol after he declared martial law on Tuesday.

Just needed to say, because it's getting blown over by all the other International stuff going on, what #PresidentYoon has been doing in #Korea is increasingly brazen and frightening, and with the latest #MarshalLaw bullshit, I think it's definitely time for the #RoK parliament to protect the #Democracy by using the best tool they have to end corruption and #Impeach #Yoon.

To all the #activists out there protesting and working against him, congrats and good luck!

Some context for last boost (bird.makeup/users/whyyoutouzhe), which says

韩国电影《首尔之春》冲上微博文娱热搜榜第一。
The Korean film "Seoul Spring" has risen to the number one spot in Weibo's Entertainment Trending Topics.

The film "Seoul Spring" has the English title "12.12: The Day". It is about the military coup in South Korea which took place on December 12, 1979, led by Chun Doo Hwan. It was followed by another coup on May 17, 1980. This was followed by the Gwangju pro-democracy student protests and Gwangju Massacre in May 1980. This was the start of the establishment of Chun Doo Hwan's military dictatorship (not to be confused with the previous Park Chung Hee military dictatorship). The term Seoul Spring refers to this time period: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul_Sp

All of this happened within living memory for many South Koreans. People in their 50s and 60s now were students at the time of the Gwangju Massacre. These events are covered extensively in South Korean popular culture as well, such as the "Seoul Spring" / "12.12: The Day" film, which is one of the most popular films in South Korean film history. The director Kim Sung Soo himself was a student at that time, too:

variety.com/2024/film/news/kor

“That night left a very clear memory. I was getting ready to apply for colleges that winter night when I saw in my own neighborhood an armored military vehicle passing down the street,” Kim tells Variety. “I climbed to the rooftop of my friend’s house and watched the shootout happen for next 30 minutes. I remember listening to the sound of the gunshots running through the night sky. I could not shake the question of why this was happening in my town, in my neighborhood.”

This trending post is on the Chinese social media platform, Weibo, and the screenshot was posted by the overseas dissident "Teacher Li is Not Your Teacher" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher_). His Twitter account has become a de facto hub for distributing uncensored information and news from China over the past few years. For an idea of real social issues in China now, I encourage following his account (replicated at @whyyoutouzhele here on the Fediverse). The posts are all in Chinese but Google Translate is pretty good for getting an idea. Note that there will be disturbing content (for example, images and videos of the random knife / car attacks that have been happening in China recently, such as the attacks in Zhuhai on November 11, 2024).

There are of course many sensitive political events that happened in China in the 1980s as well, the most significant of which is the June 4, 1989 Massacre at Tiananmen Square. That is part of why it is significant that a film about military repression of pro-democracy movements is trending on Weibo, and why Teacher Li is posting about it.

bird.makeup李老师不是你老师韩国电影《首尔之春》冲上微博文娱热搜榜第一。