Solid information about North Korea’s secretive military campaign in support of Russia’s invasion has been hard to come by, with the DPRK troops deployed last year primarily observed through Ukraine’s cameras and scopes.

But a new program that aired on North Korean state television last month, interspersed with real combat footage from the war, has helped fill in the gaps in what we know about the Korean People’s Army’s involvement, providing revelations about the equipment and tactics used in Kursk earlier this year.

Ahead of the one-year anniversary of direct