Despite frequent predictions of imminent collapse, the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea continues to pose a threat to South Korea and remains a destabilizing element of north Asia. The armed forces continue to be the core of the regime, deploying formidable paramilitary and internal security forces against its own people, maintaining a wide network of intelligence services throughout the region, and developing an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. This book provides a detailed account of the links between the regime and the forces, and then describes each wing: air forces, naval forces, ground forces, paramilitary forces, internal security and intelligence reviews.
| ISBN | 1860644864 | | Pages | 272 | | ISBN13 | 9781860644863
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 685 | | Imprint | I.B.Tauris | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Series editor | Ball, Desmond (Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, National, Funnell, Air Marshal Ray (Principal, | | Publication date | 25 Jan 2001 | | Series title | Armed Forces of Asia | | Non-book description | book | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Library of Congress | UB | | Width (mm) | 135 | | DEWEY | 355.0095193 | | Spine width (mm) | 25 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly, General |
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Overview; command and control; Korean People's Army ground forces; Korean People's Navy Command; Korean People's Air and Air Defence Command; paramilitary and reserve forces; intelligence and internal security services; weapons of mass destruction; ballistic missiles; appendix - order of battle.
."..a detailed, up-to-date survey of North Korea's military, with special emphasis on its nuclear and missile programs." --"Journal of Asian Studies"
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