MILITARY INFORMATION: CHANGE IN NAME OF NORTH KOREAN CONSTABULARY (KYONG PI TAE) ORGANIZATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000490007-4
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 3, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
123898
OUNTRY Korea DATE:.
INFO. 2 September 15'47
JECT Military Information % Change in Name of North 3 November 1947
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Korean Constabulary (Kyong Pi Tae) Organizations
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The change in designation does not, however, apply to members of the Peace
Preservation Corps Officers' School. known also as the Peace Preservation Staff
Officers' School or the People's Army, They are never referred to as members
1u On 5 April 1947, the Bureau of Internal Af f'~: irs (Nae 'Nu Kuk) (It ' fj f') of
the North Korean People's Comittee announced that all Kyo"ng Pi Tas (Constabu-
lary) organizations would henceforth be known as the Po An Tae (Peace Preser-
vation Corps)
The reason given by the North Korean authorities for the change in :}time was
that the term "K.y6ng Pi Tae" is used in reference to an army or army troops,
iiw" or K ~n Pi The.
on People's Army in North ?oreao) 25X1A2g
whereas the members of the KyN'hg Pi Tae were not actually army troops but per-
formed duties of a police rather than a military nature.,
4,, Since 5 April, the Constabulary (Kydng P1 Tee), the Railway Constabulary (Ch'ol
To Kyong; Ps Tea) iii ? ) and the Coast Guard Constabulary (Rae An Kyeng
Pi Tae) ('y{ . rf A have been known respectively as the Peace Preser-
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vation Corps (Po An Tae) ',{'`,= Railway Peace Preservation Corps (Ch'ol To
Po An Tao) and the Coast Guard Peace Preservation Corps Be.e
An Po An Tae)
,T--2 5. However, many of the North Koreans, through force of ha:-it, still use the term
"Kytag Pi Tae" in preference to "Po An Tae".
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