MILITARY AND NAVAL INFORMATION: NORTH KOREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002600360005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 14, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Korea
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Military and Naval Information, North Korea
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1. There is no formal conscription for the North Korean Peopleq s Army. but
pressure from the North Korea Labor Party and its affiliated organizations
is such that the result to the same as if there were conscription. Quotas
calling for recruits from 18 to 28 years of age are allocated to each
gun (county); the Central Committee of the Labor Party issues instructions
to subordinate gun and do (province) committees to see that the recruits
are provided. The Peoples Army Headquarters also brings pressure to bear
25X1X6 by dispatching recruiting officers who "force" enlistments,
2. In the mountain valley immediately behind the Aochi Coal Mine, Hamgyong-
pukto, 2,000 (7) USSR soldiers are billeted. Their barracks are newly
built, but poorly and hastily constructed.
;c. At Ryunpo Airfield, Hamju Gun, Hamgyongn mdo, there are many unfinished
underground hangars which were begun by the Japanese. The hangars are
now being used by the North Korean air force. The number of planes ob-
served at this field varies from 15 to 20. Most of these planes are in
rather poor condition,
4. Approximately 100 (i?) USSR naval personnel In uniform remain stationed in
Wonsan ().27-25, 39-:LO). During the first week of February 1949, two USSR
naval craft of approximately 3.000 tons each were seen- in Ifonean harbor,
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States
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Next Review Date; 2008
CLASSIFICATION Amna"
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