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The Destiny Bridges Podcast featuring Jordan Harbringer can be found here. Special thanks to syriacus.org for analyzing the original video. The translation is below: Confidence scale Very High Confidence - 95%+ High confidence - 75-95% Medium Confidence - 45-65% Low Confidence - 25-45% Very Low Confidence >25% 07 SECONDS Language Used - Korean - Very High Confidence Content of speech - "Don't cross over" - "넘어가지 말라"/"Nom-oh-gah-ji Malla" - High confidence Dialect (intonation) - Generic North Korean intonation - High confidence Dialect (word choice) - No particular words identified of dialect significance Speaker Identified? - The man seen in the video between 00 SECONDS and 11 SECONDS standing stationary, wearing matching camo cap and parka - Very Low Confidence Notes - Speaker is using informal speech in a manner that denotes an order to a subordinate - Person speaking is very likely a senior NCO or officer (HIGH CONFIDENCE). This is identified by the lack of any formal speech endings such as '요'/'Yoh', '십시오'/'Sib-si-oh' or '(하)세요'/(Ha)say-oh' 17-20 SECONDS Language Used - Russian - Very High Confidence Content of speech - (BELOW) (17 SECONDS) "I don't have it!" - "Да нет у меня"/"Da net u menya" - High confidence (18 SECONDS) UNIDENTIFIED (18.5-20 SECONDS) "Well, use *UNIDENTIFIED*" - "Используй"/"Ispol'zuy" (Spoken as an order/request) - Medium confidence Dialect (intonation) - No notable intonation Dialect (word choice) - No words belonging to a specific dialect used Speaker identified? - Possibly the two men seen between 11 SECONDS and 20 SECONDS, one seated to the left of the frame wearing a matching set of camo cap and jacket and the other standing, holding carboard and wearing no cap, a khaki undershirt and uniform pants. - VERY LOW CONFIDENCE Notes - Language used is informal and exasperated - Joint Russian/Korean linguist has identified that one of the speakers may have been speaking Korean just before the first Russian language sentence was identified (VERY LOW CONFIDENCE) 25-26 SECONDS Language Used - Korean - Very High confidence Content of speech - "Hey, hey, hey!" (As a means to grab attention) - "야, 야, 야!"/"Yah, Yah, Yah!" - Very High confidence Dialect (intonation) - Generic North Korean intonation - High confidence Dialect (word choice) - No particular words identified of dialect significance Speaker identified? - Unidentified, but linguistically, contextually and tonally very similar to the speaker heard at 07 SECONDS - Medium confidence Notes - Language used is very informal as the use of 'Yah' is solely used by people substantially more senior than the person it's being used on. In a military context, this would only be used by someone directing orders to subordinates Overall analysis of video content Language used throughout the video is a mixture of both Russian and Korean (VERY HIGH CONFIDENCE), the intonation of the spoken dialect is of the North Korean dialect (HIGH CONFIDENCE), however no specific words of particular North Korean origin/specificity were used. The content of the Korean language used is in the context of a superior officer or NCO giving orders to subordinates (VERY HIGH CONFIDENCE) however no speakers could be visually identified in the video as being directly responsible for the spoken content. Supporting evidence YTN News, a reliable (FM 2-22.3/NATO scale B2/B1 source) in South Korea has also translated the video with results very similar to our own. Results can be viewed here (source is in Korean language) https://www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/0104_202410200658433876 Additional remarks Translation of the video content was done to the best of our linguists ability, together they make up native speakers of both Russian and Korean with the former also being fluent in Korean. Due to the poor quality of the video and its respective audio, it was difficult to identify certain language used. Words identified have been individually assessed to the above confidence scale. You're currently a free subscriber to The official Ryan McBeth Substack. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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