NORTH KOREAN MILITARY ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005700550011-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: September 6, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGEN( REPORT NO..
INFORMATION REPOR'
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UWECT North 1'orsan t,Gi,.litary Activities
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aegwan hit a concentratzor or 40,000 volunteer army troops and
inflicted heavy casualties (number unknown), The troops scattered and
just regrouped north of the ROK lst Division in mid-August.
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l., On 19 August the North Korean 3 Division was cozmianded by Major General
0 Paek Yong. The division consists of three regi.uents and has a total
strength of 5,000 men. The division is equipped with twenty-four. 120-mm.
guns (?mortars), fifty-four 82 mm,, guns (?mortars), eighteen lt5 twn, guns,
four tanks, and an uns'peoified number of type SCR-) radios captured
from U,S. forces,.. The division is short of food, ammunition and medical
2. On 15 August two regiments of North Korean guerrilla troops led by North
K
orean Lt, Col, na Yozt chol left Taejon to infiltrate Taegu and take it
over by the end of August. The guerrillas are armed with rifles, and
each company has about six mortars or pack howitzers. Lich regiment has
one signal platoon. en percent of the force are wcxnen0
~3. In mid-August North Korean soldiers reported that the recent N-29 bombing
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