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Odds are high they’ll do exactly what Putin’s forces did, and lie through their teeth while eliminating anyone whose truthful report might get them in trouble.
That's just business as normal. Even compared to Russia, North Korea has a pretty extremely controlled "media"; not even any pretence of an independent media, just state controlled every where.
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Agreed, but war fighting poses unique challenges, and groups that fail to understand and act based on reality tend to struggle the most.
Uniquely for them, their version of reality is the most extremely warped among the world stage. How many losses can they take before the cracks start to show? War brings chaos and makes it more difficult to control information flow. What happens when returning soldiers quietly share the reality they saw abroad, despite best efforts to misinform them? Or when a Russian flank fails because their allies flat out made shit up?
On the flip side, war hardening their soldiers on a modern battlefield would give NK a card that SK can’t play.
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Best Korea sending officers and troops to get advanced training in Russia and then real world experience on the battlefield in Ukraine is a twist we could and possibly should have seen coming. They’re not stupid so they probably have a mix of military occupations out there, with spec ops, infantry, artillery, electronics and drone specialists probably making up the bulk. That could really up their game back in Asia, so South Korea will be hiring more Russian specialists soon.
An odd silver lining is that Jabba Jung Un’s dictatorial regime has the same weaknesses as his new bestie’s. It’ll be interesting to see how the top brass cover up the inevitable slaughter of their men if they’re sent to the front in Ukraine. Odds are high they’ll do exactly what Putin’s forces did, and lie through their teeth while eliminating anyone whose truthful report might get them in trouble.
Meanwhile South Korea and Japan watch with baited breath.