NORTH KOREAN MILITARY CONSCRIPTION AND DISCHARGE PROCEDURES

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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• Publication Date: March 9, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELL.LG.ENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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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
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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
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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
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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 .
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the Replacement Bureau was also known as the Rank and
File Replacement D th De rtment a~ Or anizatian
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