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The North Korean soldiers used as 'human mine detectors' in Putin's war: Kim Jong-un's troops deploy single-file battlefield death march until they are blown up one after the other - with 4,000 lost in Kursk meat grinder
2025-01-10
Posted by:Skidmark

#8   Didn't Iran do the same thing in the Iran-Iraq war?

Yes. Gave each boy a golden plastic key to the gates of Paradise, and sent them forward.
Posted by: trailing wife   2025-01-10 22:39  

#7  "More rations for the rest of youse!"
Posted by: Frank G   2025-01-10 18:56  

#6  Feed a man a mine field, and he will never go hungry again.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2025-01-10 17:21  

#5  Didn't Iran do the same thing in the Iran-Iraq war? IIRC they sent teenagers marching through a mine field to find the mines. Eventually they directed the kids to wrap themselves in blankets so that when they were blown up, the body parts weren't strewn all over the battlefield.
Posted by: Rambler   2025-01-10 17:09  

#4  Well, those Europeans who are not under arrest for noticing the African barbarian savages. Or graped. Or dead.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2025-01-10 16:58  

#3  "Private Kim!"

"Yes, Comrade Sergeant?"

"Go march that way until something explodes."

(Looks in that direction and sees the ground covered in mines)
"Comrade Sergeant, if I make it to the other side, can I have some more borscht MREs and watch MinskMaidens for a few minutes?"

(shrugs)
"Sure."

"Hokay."

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2025-01-10 16:49  

#2  
Posted by: badanov   2025-01-10 16:15  

#1  Using them in place of the "penal battalions" of the Stalin era.
Posted by: ed in texas   2025-01-10 15:37  

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