COMMUNIST ORDER OF BATTLE IN NORTH KOREA AND MANCHURIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A000300030048-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 48
• Content Type: BRIEF

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COMMUNIST A ER OF BATTLE IN NORTH KOREA AND MANCRURIA
Communi
and strength in Korea is now estimated to
total 1,087,000.
A. Chinese Communist - 13 armies plus ten Independent
artillery divisions 141,000 son.
U. Six armies on the line and remainder are in reserve
C. North Korean six corps - 346,000 men.
D. Three corps on the line and the remainder used as
coastal defense.
seats a decrease of 171,000 Chinos* troops
armistice,
from Korea since or Just prior to armistice.
U. The five Chinese Communist armies stationed in
.churia include four armies withdrawn from
Korea since or just prior to the Korean
armistice. Total strength in Manchuria 221,000.
North Korean Army has increased mince armistice by 5P,000,
only 13,000 of which are effective combat troops,
A. Since armistice artillery, AA and armored units
have been reorganized and strengthened.
coastal missions on the western coast.
van Chinese armies have been withdrawn
are, 810 AA, 968 artillery.
North Korean Air Force is now based almost entirely
in North Korea.
A. Sixteen airfields now serviceable - seven can
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Strength still approximately same as
at armistice.
340 aircraft (170 Jet fighters, 100 conventional
and 40 IL-28 jet bombers). Some of
the bombers are still based in Manchuria.
Air Force in Manchuria is still approximately
the same as at armistice.
A. 400-450 Jot fighters -- 55 IL-28 jet bombers
in Manchuria.
0-15 7-4 medium bombers based near Peiping
within range of Korea.
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Force strength in Manchuria has decreased M m
m
regiments (about 400 planes) to seven regiments
ut 250 planes).
A. Like Chinese, these 1MIG's arebased between Mukden
and the Yalu.
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SOUTH KOHEAW ORDER OF BATTLE
strength is approximately 510, 000, a
which 54 percent represents headquarters and service
troops.
A. Four divisions have been activated since
divisions
Weapons strength:
1. Artillery - 1094, mortar -? 2?19,
the armistice.
one field army, four corps, twenty
tanks
it. south Korean air force strength is approximately same
as time of armistice.
A. 118 conventional aircraft (77 F-51 fighters,
the remainder trainers and light observation
aircraft).
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