RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING OF NORTH KOREAN AIR FORCE PERSONNEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Publication Date: March 28, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATIO~ I,EPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
SUBJECT Recruitment and Training of North DATE DISTR. March 1961
Korean Air Force Personnel
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
recruitment and training of North Korean Air Force personnel
X ARMY X NAVY
X AIR
X NSA
X OCR
INFORMATION REPORT I N FORMATION REPORT
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N'la nance and tr' ' of NK Air Fe;w rsonn1
The officers and men in the NY Air Force were recru.t d from among the folio-ran?
persons on plan:
1) Graduates of air fouree and infantry military officers' schools.
2) Parsons who ware enlisted into the North Korea Peoria's Army (NKPA) as
volunteers in formality., and later assigned as o a?-ccxca.:a.ssioned office-.,'s ant
privates in the air force.
3) Feral.e noses who volunteered for the service.
4) !-ii itary surgeons who graduated from medical eo t-;,,; s
Tho officers below r A jor w e r e describod by their ml:, . -y u_zk 9uah as lie ttr ,.-it,
or junior lieutenant without raentiorirg aa.r force nt -.3:,!.y. dot jonarals warc
doscribed with the name of the branch of tho Arw 3d ; - -. ctr U hay served. For eza.m -.:.~
,,:a jor Goneral,Air. Forco, lioreover, no signs of :-.pec;:i a;!_ skill were irst to"c?0c z 3;
i:i he ?fl': air force per:;ornel, but they were desigtbcite6l. u:,::ordthg to the kind o
service as follmis : Aviator (pilot)., ordinary oa fi_c or -Meehnica off icer
(maintenance officer) . The non--coL rissicnod. off ice:: rind ;-rivates were eat
their ranks.
1. f~.nrollrnent (C lif`;.cations for apolicatiionn and
a. Military officers' school: 1,11hen the graduar::i.o:i ce;'snony was app_n)ao - i ; r,.
the enrollment announcoment was made without r. rtioning the air fo:x'c(,
mi.? itary school, The enrollment was made at 1-?;T a7u1ar periods cLi: S o=. on
frog. other branches of the NKFA and au-rays :i=a ncer>ot. The fling cort;r,s,t
and the maintenanco course in the military of s=.cars' school admitted
applicants se?,~srately and gave graduation d:i. )I( as also at different
periods, There were two methods of eru'o~_lmcni, Ahni't selected 3e3r ic c7;,
in the NK Air Force (to fill vacancies in the rwir tjenar a course, and.
admit ciavil'ians (to - f ll vacancies in the flyln course), the period o.
enrollment and admission being different,,
1) Method of admission of seleatad serv:4carr:.cgn 4n 14K Air Faroe:
Before the entrar ca nations the Air- Force Headquarters no = i `La
the urnits under its eoi and of the numb,- or p`~roons who will t,ra.r.e
the examination and then the regiment coi ander's nominate and
recommnd the examinees to the Air Force H::edc,uarters, which aorr os
another notification with approval of tn-_,3 Telco;r~.endatio Then t-h
candidates are sent to the air base ho: _i; .t+1 fl of the proper unit:, t
receive pi7 yoi sal. sex-min tions and the rr:, xis-::.t-s of the same ex t n~ .t i
are reported to the Air Force Headquart;:r:?, There the de :aieicn .'ox
admission is made on the basis of the: p; rrs'.cr~1. examinations r, s'Zz:
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selected servioeraen cadets in tho air force are admitted to the
maintenance course and none of them are ass Lgned to the flying course,
.here was a plan to enroll tho c&.d'3ts Of the military school
from among the sarvicen n in the air force but the applicants for the
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y order
of the Air Force Command a physical exsrana: `,ion was being conducted
with the applicants for the ex force mili t. jry officers' school. The
air force personnel on the active list who -,ere recommended by th.;
unit cos~m=dors were as fol]ble: soldier.-3 i i the viaintenance sorv:.ce
and some soldiers platoons in guard die :,yf who had served zwre,
than one year in the array, and from acorn;,: u zder;_;r' duatos of h gh
schools after chocking their family t c.,.;_ r nirAde to see whether an ,r
of their family members had gone to the and w .ether their ?r.: --L _ly
condition was good during the Japanese occui 'at:ion.: thong b that the ~;radua'.is
of the arnr surgeon rid-titary school were 1.:? ' silt ate to fill the poE . ,:t
in the airforce. The method of asoigr ont, .aa sac as l), above, aid
some were stationed in he air lass hosait..1t.e,
3) Graduates of civilian r:nedical colleges: Th ss~ were called by the
upon graduation and wore assigned to the lit other crer
the graduates of a five year medical Colic;: i,er e called by he ar
and were as junior 'lleutentnzt. - and assigned to the
as:r
force as surgeons. Half of the surgeons the. at dons:~.zn
Air Fiold were this type of graduate and t , remaining half were
graduates of the array surgeon military off :erne.' school. The :;ut`;ec :Ks
in the Pyongyang Air Base Hospital were m ~:_y the forwar type o:~' gracw . a,
Judging from the fact that those graduates 'eve no . given any
t:G1;a is
military training,., it sae thc*?aght tAhat they ca' ire r Ivan a pros ribed
trair4ng after the recruitment and assigned-, Oct proper posts as coi,,n ss:.o-.
ned wargeoL s as was w- tnessed in. tho rari.o-,> uz;.iu3 of the air force
including, the unit at the '.4onsarn Air Fiol.d The air navigation
surgeons were captains or majors above the ,,? ,: of 30. They were en2 i,u :E c:
during the Korean i'lar from among the gradu' propaganda and agitati mn
of the ITK authorities. The enrolled rum-is trere g: ven the same
due to UK air force soldiers is promotion-> otherwise and were
aceonirodated in soldiers' barracks.
2) Telephone &teleGrapY: poerators: rU.1 of te'lepzone and telegr4-3h
operators in the NM air force were fema3.i? rc ldier who were enroll. ad
by tho sane method as the nurses mention". above;, regardless of
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2. Education:
b. Maintenance officers : There were three met. `1o.ss of tr'ainin g nai nterzanc 3
officers as follows: Training technical offi.c^t during three years
to complete the whole coupe of tho air fcrco military officers' schoc? A
training Jux-dor or,ginoer e during six months i- -) ccavlete the whole cour 3e
of the non-acmiesioned officers' inztitute, .t,i.aoh =:.o the air force
military officers a echoo',.
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traiuiri s,k anton:acs officers in the
field to complete the whole course of a tra.i nin, : ino Lute of now
recruits. In addition, there was .a supplemeritv,,y education for off sere
in the field of mai ntonance conducted in the military officers t instit,itc .
attached to the military officers' school in the following manner: First
givir one year' a theoretical r3upplementar3y e lucation to raai.ntensnce c ff: c :? 5
who did not receive regular training during t?;'e Korean :tar; second, giri?,g
three years' education to selected maintenatrs;:- c fficere in the capeeit of junior engineers at an nlitar y officers' zi:i Git e to train thm t,
enginocrs to be responsible ma ntenance iii ~,'?.ying battaY? ion:
The following is an explanation of the three - et4odc of technical tre.i aixL
of maintenance offi.core:
1) The non-cons: iasionod officers and pris at.. -,-!ho had been enrolled h i.
the "calling program" and assi ned to the: foroo were distribut. Xi
to each unti by decision of the staff of ' , ; a 4~ .;A Force Oamnnd, ad
given basic education of new recruits by G.wu :.hods: First, giv'i,
three moths t education at the n w recruit:, I i.rZLtning institute
temporarily cpenod by order of the Divin-i' - L za;;nder; second, 'giv. a
onnthe-epot education after din*ect assn; i>'e,,,t to each uui.t of the
Division.
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Luc when a large ni.:sral1a1 of people were a~-. acid to the =:L- Doane
posts a near recruits' training, inatitnt,e as to hlished to give n1r 50X1-HUM
recruits' education to all non--ec78r-l;issio