The North Korean People's Army: Origins And Current Tactics by James M. MinnichA week ago, I suddenly started on 'The North Korean People's Army: Origins And Current Tactics'. It's fairly engrossing. It seems that the South Korean military has some information in Korean that has not been translated into English. I finished reading the North Korean People's Army book the next evening. The book contained doctrinal details at various levels. The unit frontages, attack, defence, evolution of the army. However it is a thin volume. There is clearly not much available information beyond that. Frontages of the formations in defence and attack are described. Anti-tank doctrine appears to be of key importance. Doctrine is a combination of Russian mechanised operational art and the Chinese's people's war.Notables: The anti-tank elements of the North Korean formations are antiquated. Su-76 (What?!), AT1, AT2 and some recoiless rifles.The SOF element is extremely large in the order of 120 000 personnel or more. This is clearly descended from the Chinese lessons in the Chinese Civil War.
Sadly, there are no visuals of the North Korean army in the thin volume.
I started on something on the 'The Chinese Army Today' by Dennis J. Blasko afterwards.
4 comments:
SOF? Is this a term used for Spec Ops. Learn me CSC :)
Yes. It's Special Operations Forces. It is a common abbreviation used in some books.
What a pitiful state that country is in. Why are they so paranoid? I don't think we have much to fear from them, but the nuclear question is troubling. I'll bet they would be more inclined to use it than Iran, but probably for blackmail.
I don't think they are even self-sufficient in food.
As for other activities, they do print a lot of US currency, sell nuclear weapons technology, sell other counterfeit products and more.
I guess it is hard for us to under the siege mentality that the leader cultivates. And also his cult of personality.
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