North Korea military strength
North Korea Military Strength That Makes Them Fearless
North Korea Overview
North Korea has the second largest number of total military personnel in the world ,with 7,679,000 troops out of an approximate population of 25 million. There are 1,190,000 active, 6,300,000 reserve and 189,000 paramilitary personnel.
President of North Korea,Kim Jong Un started the mission of stockpiling high grade military artilleries,nuclear weapons and more.
Currently,The country has over 60 Nuclear weapons of varies destruction ratio,It also has a high quality of weapons yet to be used in any battle of any sorts.
North Korea has since embarked on an accelerated buildup of weapons of mass destruction and the modernization of its already large conventional force.
United States and it's Asian allies regard North Korea possessing this power as grave threats but all their efforts to stop them from building more weapons of mass destruction is to no avail.
The ARMY
North Korea has 950,000 active Army personnel, with most soldiers armed with locally-produced Kalashnikov-type rifles like the Type 58 assault rifle. The Army also uses ZM-87 anti-personnel lasers, which are banned under the UN Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons.
It has been maintaining a large number armoured vehicles for decades. Although some are now produced domestically, most are Soviet-made. It boasts 5,500 tanks and 2,200 infantry fighting vehicles
The NAVY
With up to 60,000 sailors, the country's naval strengths lie in submarine warfare. Of its 810 vessels, 70 are submarines and 10 midget submarines. The strongest element of its surface fleet, meanwhile, is its three known frigates and four corvettes.
North Korea's navy has one overarching mission - defending the Kim regime from outside attack
The Air Force
North Korea's Air Force has significantly more manpower than the Navy, with an estimated 110,000 personnel. Again though, it currently exists mostly as a defensive force, with its primary task to defend North Korean airspace.
Even so, it has 940 aircraft, mostly of Soviet and Chinese origin.
What are North Korea’s military capabilities?
North Korea has tested and have series of different missiles, including
Short missiles
Medium missiles
Intermediate missiles
Intercontinental range missiles
Submarine-launched ballistic missiles
They also have
10,000 armoured vehicles
800 self propelled artillery
2,100 rocket projectors
6,045 Tanks
458 air fighters
20 Attack helicopter
204 helicopter
83 Submarines and much more.
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