■ Host: Anchor Park Seok-won
■ Starring: Kim Yeol-soo, Director of Security Strategy at the Korea Military Research Institute

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◇ Anchor> The issue of sending North Korean troops must be of great interest to us, but isn’t there a story like this that the North Korean army is about to be deployed to the front of the battlefield? In the midst of this, the Ukrainian military is said to have armed the North Korean army with 60mm mortars and night vision goggles in Russia. What type of weapon is this 60mm mortar?

◆Kim Yeol-soo> When we say po, we simply think, in common sense, that there is a short-term po and a long-term po. So, to put it simply, we call it ICBM, an intercontinental ballistic missile. This means that the autonomy is 15,000 km. So, I will reduce the number of points. If you look at it, there are about 30 people at the platoon level, and if I have to destroy the enemy, the opponent who is coming from 2 or 3 km in front of my platoon level, I need that kind of weapon. This is what a 60 mm mortar is called for a weapon with a range of 2 to 3 km. And a little more than that is called an 81mm mortar in Korea, and this 81mm mortar is mainly owned by infantry units. And if you continue, 105mm, 155mm, 152mm, these are all from the artillery unit. So, I can tell you that 60mm mortars are mainly used to prevent enemies from coming from the platoon level at a distance of 2 to 3 kilometers.

◇ Anchor > In that sense, if the North Korean army is armed with 60mm mortars as Ukraine claims, there is a possibility that they will be used in small-scale battles and small-scale battles. However, in the midst of this, a close aide of Russian President Putin mentioned that World War III could occur due to American intervention. We talked before the US presidential election, but what will be the impact of the war depending on the results of the presidential election?

◆Kim Yeol-soo> I think there may be an impact on the war. And now, the Russian official talking about World War III was blackmail and a threat. In other words, do not intervene in the United States, NATO or Europe. But I think Europe and the United States are paying attention to November 5. And in the worst case, the presidential election results will be released in more than 10 days, but if they are released quickly, the presidential election results may be released in three or four days. So I think the United States, NATO and the European Union are going to decide how to control Russia and support Ukraine in this, based on the results of the presidential elections that will begin on November 11. So NATO will never intervene on behalf of NATO. The moment you intervene on behalf of NATO, as you just said, World War III may break out. However, individual countries can intervene. The reason is that President Macron said five times in February this year that he would send 2,000 French troops to support Ukraine. But all I ask is to look at the results of the presidential elections. So once this is over, the responsible countries in Europe, namely France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy, are very interested in the issue of sending troops and there is a possibility that they will support it. That’s how you look at it. Even if the United States does not send troops, it has so far prevented the so-called long-range and long-range missiles from firing missiles that fall on Russian soil. They will most likely publish that part, so let’s look at it like this.

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: Lee Mi-young, editor of the digital news team

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