North Korea Handbook; PC-2600-6421-94
Washington DC: Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency, 1994. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 4.25 inches by 5.75 inches. Approximately 1.25 inches thick. Cover has some wear, rippling, and is scuffed. Various paginations (approximately 530 pages). Map. Illustrations (photographs, drawings, tabular data). Includes sections on: Korean Peninsula General Information; Korean Language Guide; Military Forces of the DPRK; Officer and Enlisted Rank Insignia; Organizational Charts; Equipment Recognition; Health Risks and Preventive Medicine; and Appendix A. Glossary. This unclassified handbook is for used as a unit training manual and as a ready reference guide for individual Service members. It is designed to provide US and allied military personnel with a base of information for conducting effective operations on the Korean peninsula. This reference document has been prepared by the National Maritime Intelligence Center's US Marine Corps Intelligence Activity and produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency. Contributions were made by DIA, to include the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center and the Missile and Space Intelligence Center, the US Army Intelligence and threat Analysis Center, US Army Foreign Science and Technology Center, US Navy Office of Naval Intelligence, US Air Force National Air Intelligence Center, and the Defense Language Institute. The information cutoff date for this handbook was 20 December 1993. Prior to the issuance of this handbook, there was a country study on North Korea that was part of the Country Studies series produced by the American University. In 1997 the US Marine Corps Intelligence Activity produced an Official Use Only North Korea Country Handbook. Thus this unclassified training and ready reference handbook stands out as a unique snapshot in time during a period of a significant increase in tensions between North and South Korea and North Korea and the United States. In 1910, Korea was annexed by the Empire of Japan. In 1945, after the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, Korea was divided into two zones along the 38th parallel, with the north occupied by the Soviet Union and the south occupied by the United States. Negotiations on reunification failed, and in 1948, separate governments were formed: the socialist and Soviet-aligned Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north, and the capitalist, Western-aligned Republic of Korea in the south. The Korean War began in 1950, with an invasion by North Korea, and lasted until 1953. The Korean Armistice Agreement brought about a ceasefire and established a demilitarized zone (DMZ), but no formal peace treaty has ever been signed. North Korea follows Songun, or "military first" policy, for its Korean People's Army. It possesses nuclear weapons, and is the country with the second highest number of military and paramilitary personnel, with a total of 7.769 million active, reserve, and paramilitary personnel, or approximately 30% of its population. In 1992, as Kim Il-sung's health began deteriorating, Kim Jong-il slowly began taking over various state tasks. Kim Il-sung died of a heart attack in 1994, with Kim Jong-il declaring a three-year period of national mourning before officially announcing his position as the new leader afterwards. North Korea promised to halt its development of nuclear weapons under the Agreed Framework, negotiated with U.S. president Bill Clinton and signed in 1994. Building on Nordpolitik, South Korea began to engage with the North as part of its Sunshine Policy. Kim Jong-il instituted a policy called Songun, or "military first". Flooding in the mid-1990s exacerbated the economic crisis, severely damaging crops and infrastructure and led to widespread famine which the government proved incapable of curtailing, resulting in the deaths of between 240,000 and 420,000 people. In 1996, the government accepted UN food aid. Under the 1994 Agreed Framework, the U.S. government agreed to facilitate the supply of two light water reactors to North Korea in exchange for North Korean disarmament. Such reactors are considered "more proliferation-resistant than North Korea's graphite-moderated reactors", but not "proliferation proof". The Agreed Framework was undermined by a Republican Congress during Clinton's presidency, as Congress denounced the agreement with North Korea, imposed new sanctions on North Korea, and hindered the Clinton administration from providing the supplies to North Korea that were part of the Agreed Framework. Implementation of the Agreed Framework foundered, and in 2002 the Agreed Framework fell apart, with each side blaming the other for its failure. By 2002, Pakistan had admitted that North Korea had gained access to Pakistan's nuclear technology in the late 1990s. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Military Training, Military Manuals, Handbooks, Reference Works, North Korea, Military Organization, Military Tactics, Special Operations, Rank, Insignia, Military Equipment, Military Strategy, Military Doctrine, Combat Stress, Field Sanitation, PC-2
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