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It's not like DNA testing wouldn't confirm they're Koreans. They're just wasting fuel doing this.
A picture is worth 1000 words.
Pictures of DNA don't tell laymen much about who is involved.
Idk a pic of 200 dead men with their face burned off might do something.
Laymen will just think "war is hell" without considering who those people really were.
This would be great for defectors. Harder to tell who died and who found freedom.
Seems pretty fucking far fetched
They had mobile crematoriums so why not?
But why north koreans and not any other foreign nationals they've conscripted/employed?
He has started hallucinating on Ukraine's uranium seems.
WTF is that even supposed to mean?
You see, Ukraine is starting to rethink the idea of not having nuclear weapons and that makes them bad, unlike nice and friendly Russia who already have all the nuclear weapons they need and have Orthodox priests bless them on the regular.
I'm sure that the CIA backed Radio Free Asia doesn't have a US bias slant
Come on! Say something about the USSR!
You're not helping promote journalistic integrity.
All you're doing is saying "it's okay to be biased when it supports my side."
Great comeback. When people are quoting the literal CIA funded outlet Radio Free Asia as a source, which is known for making outrageous claims against any enemy of America without evidence, say "Russia and China bad" and poof everything is proven.
Trying to conflate the USSR and Russia is infantile
That's why they're listed separately I guess
It's like they can't read lol
3x3 Bingo? Please. 5x5 or go home.
...Man I miss State Department Bingo.
You're not wrong but you're not right.
There is also video evidence of this
Cool. Here's the newsweek article on the same thing that has a link to Zelensky's Twitter post where he says the thing. https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-says-russian-troops-burning-faces-killed-north-korean-soldiers-2001980
Newsweek has been unable to independently verify the video or Zelensky's allegations.
Awesome.
Like NK soldiers are there and we know they're there. This explanation doesn't seem to pass the straight face test.
Newsweek is also trash, but for different reasons.
Also trash
I have a feeling that you would say any source with this information is trash by virtue of it having information you don't like.
And you would be wrong, Newsweek is owned by right wing Christian fundamentalists and RFA is CIA propaganda
Go on. Now do the BBC.
Point where it says Russia is burning off their faces to keep it a secret
Seriously?
On Monday, President Zelensky posted drone footage on Telegram that showed a number of men taking cover behind trees, saying they were North Korean troops who had just taken part in an assault on a Ukrainian position.
He also posted footage which he said showed Russian troops trying to conceal the presence of North Koreans on the battlefield by using a campfire to burn the faces of those who had been killed.
All you had to do was read the article and you didn't bother because you're too convinced you're right and all of these sources are lying.
It's not even a very long article.
I don't even have a horse in this race, but it's kinda crazy how badly people seem to want to believe this one crazy detail of an already unbelievable conflict
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a: they're paraphrasing zelenski there, and,
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b:
The BBC has not independently verified the claims.
They're all reporting on the same tweet, it's not surprising that none of them have been able to verify it
That really doesn't change my point. All three articles give the same information.
Yea I don't disagree. It's just an incredible claim and it's surprising that it's apparently not being scrutinized much in the reporting.
People really want to take this as granted, and that's kinda the point of manufactured consent.
Go back to .ml
Does it make you uncomfortable to hear information that you disagree with despite it being true?
That's a very strange question for you to ask based on your rejection of information you disagree with.
It's not a matter of disagreeing with it, the sole purpose of RFA and RFE is propaganda
And yet it could still be true information that you're disagreeing with simply because the source is propaganda. You do understand that propaganda and falsehoods are not the same thing, yes?
Something about a broken clock?
Would that 'broken clock' include the BBC article I gave you a link to? Just out of curiosity. You don't seem to have dismissed it as propaganda.
The BBC article doesn't make the false claim of Russia burning off their faces to keep it a secret.
It literally does.
It's pretty damn foolish of you to deny the contents of an article are in the article twice.
Is this information here with us now?
If it were true it would exist in the real world, outside of your .ml echo chamber
Lemmy.world ironically talking about echo chambers?
It does, but that doesn't necessarily mean its reporting is false.
Yea that OR the orcish orcs are orc(k?)ing..
Whatever makes the most sense to you I guess...
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