NORTH KOREAN MILITARY CONSCRIPTION AND DISCHARGE PROCEDURES

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March 9, 1953
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Approved For Release 2009/02/10 :CIA-RDP80-00810A000400280004-6 CENTRAL INTELL.LG.ENCE AGENCY INFORMATION REPORT SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION COUNTRY Korea -DATE OF INFO. PLACE ACQUIRED North Korean Military Conscription and Discharge Procedures This Document oontataa iafosmatlon affecting the Na- tional. Defense. o! the United Btatea, within the mean- ing. of Title 18, 8eotioas 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, ss amended. Its tritnsmiselon or revelation of its contents L?o.or receipt by sn unauthorized person is prohibited by law. The, reproduatlon of this form is prohibited. DATE DISTR. 9 March 1953 NO. OF PAGES ~ REQUIREMENT NO. RD REFERENCES THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE. THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. (fOR KEY SEE REVERSE) Nort_ h Korean l~ilitax~st, Conscription Prooedurep 1, the North Korean Military Mobilization Replacement Bureau of the North Korean army general headquarters was ~esponaible for initiating North Korean military conscription prooedurese This board notified the provincial military mobilization boards of the rivmber of men to be drafted from eaoh provinces The provincial boELrda assign?d a quota to eaoh county according to the countyts population, The Qounty military mobilization board made a file cheek of men eligible. far the draft and informed the district and city peoples committees of the names of the men to be drafted and of the date by which they moat report for inductions The district and city peapleaa aommitteea p~a~ed the 3riformation on to the village peoplets oammitteea9,whioh informed the praapeotive draftees in writing or verbally~af the draft calls On a specified date the draftee reported to a designated 10oation, and a member of the village peopleea committee escorted them to the district or city peapleQs committee office. The draftees were. then escorted by a member of the county military mobilization beard to the county board headquarterse There they were met by a member of the provincial military mobilization board and escorted to the provincial board headquartersq accompanied by a member of the county board. The trip from the village assembly poin$ to the provincial beard headquarters tank between one and two days and the men were billeted and fed by the villagers en route, 2; At the pravinoisl military mobilization baElyd headquarters the men were gives physical examinations' which took from one to two days. Then they were eacclrted by members of the provincial board headquarters} guard platoon to their assigned unites Each group was accompanied by a repre- aentative from a unit who had Dame to the provincial headquarte~e to -claim the member of draftee~.all~tted to his unit, 4Jhen the draftees. wined their assigned unitaa-they were issued clothing.. They were separated 25X1 25X1 25X1 SECRET', STATE X ARMY X MAVY g AIR X FBI AEC 2 5X1 Approved For Release 2009/02/10 :CIA-RDP80-00810A000400280004-6 Approved For Release 2009/02/10: CIA-RDP80-00810A000400280004-6 SECRET mom into two groups according to their physical condition and size and assign?d to duties accordingly, 3a If a man who received a draft ca11 failed to report for induction, his parents were sentenced to one year in prison and their land and property 'were confiacatedo If .the draftee was apprehended by the authorities, he was indicted for high treason and sentenced to five years in priaon4 However9 if he admitted his errors and asked forgiveness, his familyQS land and property were restoredq the whole cease-was forgotten officially, and he was inducted into the army in the prescribed manner, Che~an~ Provincial Military Mobilization Board 4e the headquartar~s of the Chagang Provincial Military Mobilization Board was in a red brick, singlemstoryp six room building at EAm979363a in Kanggye (N ~,Om~B, E. 126-36~-, (BA?9837), The headqua~?ters had the following offices and sectionss aq C3ffica of the Chief of the Chagang Provincial Military Mobilization Boards Tha Chief was responsible for drafting men in Chagang Province as needed, reviewing and issuing discharge certificates,, and the direcstion of all military mobilization boards in the provinc?, bo Office of the Assistant Chief of the Chagang Provincial Military Mobilization Boards The assistant chief acted as chief in the chiefrs absence, inspected all doeumenta coming from the sections of the board, was in change of political indoctrination of the members of all military mobilization boards in the province, and inspected all military mobili- zation boards in the province to see that all directives were carried cute ~a Central Files Sectiono This section received and passed on documents and directives to the various ?~ounty, city and villag? boarda9 was in charge of filing9 reproducing, and validating all documents issued by the Military Mobilization Replacement Buraau9 and recorded and passed on to high?r offices all official documents from the lower boardae d, OfficersB Affairs Section, Thia aect3on was responsible for handling the personal affairs of officers in all military mobilization boards in the province9 completing officerso discharge certificatea~ confiscating all governorent property in the poeaeaaion of officers at the time of their? discharge, and recalling discharged officrera to military dutyo e, Enlisted Menps Affairs Section, Thia aeotion handled the personal affairs of enlisted men in all the military mobilization boards in the province9 drafted enlisted-men according to the number specified by the Militaryy Mobilization Replacement Bureau, called back to duty discharged enlisted men as needeed, and compiled statistics on persona eligibl? far the drafty draft-exempt mane draft dodgers, and wounded veterans, o Finance Sections Thia section was responsible for the payment of salaries to military mobilization board members throughout the province and for other financial matters in connection with th? operation of the boardae Training section, Thia aeotion was responsible for the military training of all personnel of the military mobilization boards and for compiling statistics on potential military personnel among the teenmagera throughout the provinceo A training officer was diapatehed by city and county military mobilization boards weekly or once every SECRET Approved For Release 2009/02/10: CIA-RDP80-00810A000400280004-6 Approved For Release 2009/02/10: CIA-RDP80-00810A000400280004-6 SECRET ~~ ten days to senior high schools throughout the province to give military training to both male and female high school studentsa 50 :The .Rear Service Departm?nt of th? Chagang Provincial Military Mobili~ nation hoard. was- sixty meters south of the' headquarters b~,ild3~mg ~ in a red~brick~ single story ~iuilding, This department consisted of a Provision Control Section and a Uniform Sectiono The P.~ovision Control Section was responsible for procuring focal for all employees of the. milita~?y mobilization boards in the province and their dependents and supplying rations to outside military personnel travelling in the area who were able to show. proper authorization for such travel, the Uniform Section was responsible for procuring and distributing ursiforms to members of the military mobilization boards and inspecting .and maintaining all equipments The Rear Service Department warehouse was in a concrete9 two story building about nine meters south of the headquarters buildingo This warehouse was badly damaged in United Nations bombing raids in ..November 1950 and only the ground floor was usableo There were about 130 bags of various grains9 two drums of bean oily, three drums of bean sauces and ten bags of salt stored therea Food supplies were obtained from the- Provision Section of the provincial people?s committees 6, The guard platoon quarters was about three meters south of the headquarters building in a redmbrick9 single story buildings There were three squads of ten members each, The squads were commanded h'3' a platoon leaderp who was a secand lieutenant9 and an assistant platoon leaders who was a staff sergeants The squads were armed with twenty Mossin-Nagant rifles and eleven PPSh?,~.1us, They acted as couriers between military mobilization boards in addition to escorting draftees to their assigned `~ unitso They alternated their guax?d duties with KP and laboring dutiesa 70 .The duty officeraQ station was about nine m?ters north of the headquarters building in a woolens single?story buildingo There were two commissioned duty officers and two non?commissioned duty officersa ?ne of each was on duty on alternate dayso They inspected visitors? identification eertifi- cates and military mobilization board members? passes, assembled draftees for roll callq and kept a log of them activitieso The arms at the duty officersQ station consisted of one TT pistol9 one PPSh, and one Japanese sword, Cha~ang Prov,~,,r~Q M~,]~itarv D so cr? Procedures So when an officer or an enlisted-man from Chagang was o e discharged from military service9 he was issued a discharge certificate from the Military Mobilization Replae?m?nt Bureau or the Staff Bureau of the North Korean army general headquarterso He had to present this certificate to the chief of the Chagang Provincial Military Mobilization Boards who reviewed the reason for the discharges The board then made two copies of the original discharge certificate and i?susd them to the man being discharged in exchange for the original certificat?, which was put on file at the board for easy reference in case the man was called up-for service agaiao The veteran then exchanged one of these copies at his local branch of the Ministry of Internal .~ffaiz?s for h$s citizenship cards He submitted the other copy to the county peopleBs committee9 which attempted to place him in a suitable fob according to recommendations made on his discharge certificete~ IC omments . SECRET 25X1 Approved For Release 2009/02/10: CIA-RDP80-00810A000400280004-6 Approved For Release 2009/02/10 :CIA-RDP80-00810A000400280004-6 SECRET m4 a the Replacement Bureau was also known as the Rank and File Replacement D th De rtment a~ Or anizatian zton 2a Presumably this is the 7e62 mmg s?mimaut?IIiatj.t9' TOkarev pistcle 25X1 Approved For Release 2009/02/10 :CIA-RDP80-00810A000400280004-6