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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.
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.