North Korea's official webpage
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a genuine workers' state in which all the people are completely liberated from exploitation and oppression. The workers, peasants, soldiers and intellectuals are the true masters of their destiny and are in a unique position to defend their interests.
KFA trips have become popular amongst our KFA members as well as other people, who are welcome to join, to experience North Korea outside the tourist trail and have interaction with North Korean citizens first hand.A visitor joining the KFA Delegation is not treated as a tourist but as a friend of the DPRK, having access to places, information, insights and events not allowed for regular visitors
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Active forces: 1.14 million
Reserves: 7.45 million
Special forces: 100,000 estimated (world's largest)
Korean People's Army (KPA)
996,000 personnel
3,800 main battle tanks
2,270 armored personnel carriers
11,200 artillery pieces
KPA Navy
48,000 personnel
430 combat vessels
50 submarines (26 attack subs)
340 support ships
KPA Air Force
103,000 personnel
1,700 aircraft (780 fighters including MiG-23s and MiG-29s)
80+ bombers
310 helicopters
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China's total armed forces = 2.48 million(includes 136,000 approx women and 1.275 million conscripts)
Reserves 1.2 million includes militia
Army = 1.83 million, 8300 main battle tanks, mainly t-69, also 2000 light tanks.
Navy = 230,000 thousand, 71 subs, 18 destroyers, 35 frigates and 678 patrol craft.
Naval air defence = 25,000, 540, shore based aircraft and 25 chopters.
Air force 420,000, 3520 combat aircraft.
Paramilitary = 1.1 million PAP(people's armed police)
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The Korean conflict is over, but Cold War warriors refuse to accept this reality because they need a “threat.” In 1994, the Military-Industrialist worked the media and politicians into a war hysteria which almost caused President Clinton to order air strikes in North Korea. In his book “Hazardous Duty,” retired Colonel David Hackworth describes his trip to Korea in which he uncovered this phony threat. Fortunately, former President Jimmy Carter heard the war drums and flew to North Korea as a private citizen and ended the phantom crisis.
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The Korean conflict is over, but Cold War warriors refuse to accept this reality because they need a “threat.” In 1994, the Military-Industrialist worked the media and politicians into a war hysteria which almost caused President Clinton to order air strikes in North Korea. In his book “Hazardous Duty,” retired Colonel David Hackworth describes his trip to Korea in which he uncovered this phony threat. Fortunately, former President Jimmy Carter heard the war drums and flew to North Korea as a private citizen and ended the phantom crisis.
When Pentagon officials talk about the need to maintain a “two-war” capability, they often refer to Korea. This is absurd since South Korea can crush North Korea without American help. North Korea’s million-man army may look impressive on paper, but remember that Iraq had a million-man army, which also had modern equipment, combat experience, and plenty of fuel.
In contrast, North Korean soldiers suffer from malnutrition and rarely train due to a scarcity of fuel and ammo. Most North Korean soldiers could not attack because they are needed to defend the entire DMZ and coastal approaches (they remember the 1950 landing at Inchon) while entire divisions must remain throughout North Korea to fend off heliborne offensives, food riots, and probable coups.
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US warns NKorea to stop exporting dangerous weapons or face world action
"If North Korea will not act, it will find the United States, its allies and other partners equally prepared to respond with measures that ensure North Korea cannot threaten our countries or international stability," said Mitchell Reiss, the department's director of policy planning.
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Bejing, March 27 — North Korean radio on Saturday explicitly rejected the formula the United States has put forward as its bottom-line position in talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear programs, raising doubts about whether the fitful negotiations are making even limited progress.
The statement carried by Radio Pyongyang and monitored by news agencies in South Korea came just after a visit to North Korea by China's foreign minister, Li Zhaoxing, and shortly before a visit to the region by Vice President Dick Cheney that is planned for April. It used typically unrestrained language in accusing the United States of secretly planning a war.
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North Korea says standoff with US at "brink of nuclear war"
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North Korea on 'Brink of Nuclear War' with US
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The United States is preparing to significantly raise its estimate of the number of nuclear weapons held by North Korea, from "possibly two" to at least eight, according to U.S. officials involved in the preparation of the report.
The report, expected to be completed within a month, would reflect a new intelligence consensus on North Korea's nuclear capabilities after that country's decision last year to restart a nuclear reactor and plutonium-reprocessing facility that had been frozen under a 1994 agreement. Among the evidence used in making the assessment is a detailed analysis of plutonium byproducts found on clothing worn by members of an unofficial U.S. delegation that was allowed to visit North Korean nuclear facilities several months ago.
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The US expects to be totally protected from a North Korean missile attack by the end of 2004, but failures in two tests could mean “big problems” for the controversial programme.
Air Force Lieutenant General Ron Kadish, director of the Missile Defence Agency, said a decision on when to put the first missile interceptors on alert has not been made, but that plans call for several to be ready to fire by September.
By the end of the year, close to 10 interceptors are expected to be on alert at two sites: Fort Greely, Alaska, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. They will be linked to a specialised radar able to track inbound missiles over the Pacific Ocean.
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Pakistani Tells of North Korean Nuclear Devices
WASHINGTON, April 12 — Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani scientist who sold nuclear technology around the world, has told his interrogators that during a trip to North Korea five years ago he was taken to a secret underground nuclear plant and shown what he described as three nuclear devices, according to Asian and American officials who have been briefed by the Pakistanis.
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North Korea told the United States on Thursday that it would test a nuclear weapon unless Washington accepted Pyongyang's proposal for a freeze on its atomic program, a senior administration official said.
Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan spoke with Assistant Secretary of State James A. Kelly in a 2 1/2-hour private discussion in China, where a six-nation conference is being held on the long-running impasse over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.
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Talks on North Korea Nuclear Program End
Envoys ended six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program Saturday with a promise to discuss steps toward dismantling it and to meet again by September, but they cautioned that the U.S. and North Korean positions remained far apart.
A key issue appeared to be how far North Korea had to go to qualify for energy aid and other benefits offered by Washington, which is demanding that the North dismantle the program completely.
North Korea offered this week to freeze its nuclear program in exchange for energy, the lifting of U.S. economic sanctions and removal from Washington's list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
The U.S. proposal requires the North to go further, disclosing all its nuclear activities, helping to dismantle facilities and allowing outside monitoring. That plan would withhold some benefits for later to ensure the North cooperates.
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A recent survey conducted by Research & Research and Gallup Korea has found that young Koreans (aged between 20 & 40) picked the United States as Korea's main enemy.
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N Korea missiles 'could reach US'
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Aug. 3, 2004
North Korea is in the process of developing a new missile system for ships or submarines, according to a report in Jane's Defence Weekly.
Such a system could "fundamentally alter the missile threat" posed by Pyongyang, as it would then be able to target the entire US, the report says.
A companion land-based missile is thought to have been developed already.
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Such a system "could finally provide [the North Korean] leadership with something that it has long sought to obtain - the ability to directly threaten the continental US," the report warns.
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Such a system could "fundamentally alter the missile threat" posed by Pyongyang, as it would then be able to target the entire US, the report says.
A companion land-based missile is thought to have been developed already.
The systems are based on the now decommissioned Soviet R-27 submarine-launched ballistic missile.
The report, published in the authoritative Jane's Defence Weekly, says the land-based system has an estimated range of 2,500km to 4,000km (1,500 miles to 2,500 miles) while the sea-based system is thought to be capable of hitting a target more than 2,500km away.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - North Korea is deploying new land- and sea-based ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads and may have sufficient range to hit the United States, according to the authoritative Jane's Defense Weekly.
In an article due to appear Wednesday, Jane's said the two new systems appeared to be based on a decommissioned Soviet submarine-launched ballistic missile, the R-27.
It said communist North Korea had acquired the know-how during the 1990s from Russian missile specialists and by buying 12 former Soviet submarines which had been sold for scrap metal but retained key elements of their missile launch systems.
New N. Korean Missiles Said to Threaten U.S.
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North Korea likens Bush to Hitler
A Foreign Ministry spokesman was responding to comments President Bush made last week in which he described the North's Kim Jong-il as a "tyrant".
The spokesman also reiterated that North Korea will not attend a working meeting ahead of the next round of six-party talks on its nuclear programme.
The working group is due to meet later this month in New York.
President Bush explained in a speech in Hudson, Wisconsin, last Wednesday, his decision to ask other countries in the region to help him persuade the North to disarm.
I felt it was important to bring other countries into the mix, like China and Japan and South Korea and Russia, so there's now five countries saying to the tyrant in North Korea, disarm, disarm," he said.
A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman, in comments carried by state news agency KCNA, responded: "This clearly proves that the DPRK [North Korea] was right when it commented that he is a political imbecile bereft of even elementary morality..... "Bush is a tyrant that puts Hitler into the shade and his group of such tyrants is a typical gang of political gangsters," he said.
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A Foreign Ministry spokesman was responding to comments President Bush made last week in which he described the North's Kim Jong-il as a "tyrant".
The spokesman also reiterated that North Korea will not attend a working meeting ahead of the next round of six-party talks on its nuclear programme.
The working group is due to meet later this month in New York.
President Bush explained in a speech in Hudson, Wisconsin, last Wednesday, his decision to ask other countries in the region to help him persuade the North to disarm.
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NK missle test :
`NK Missile Warhead Found in Alaska'long-range missile fired from North Korea turned up in Alaska
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USA to donate 50,000 tons of food to N. Koreathis donated food goes to the N. Korean military first.
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U.S. Destroyers Deploying off North Korea
The Associated Press
Friday 24 September 2004
The U.S. Navy will begin sending destroyers to the waters off North Korea as early as next week as part of the Bush administration's "missile defense" system.
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Ships are first phase in Bush plan for 'missile shield'. ABOARD THE USS CORONADO — In the first step toward erecting a multibillion-dollar shield to protect the United States from foreign missiles, the U.S. Navy will begin deploying state-of-the-art destroyers to patrol the waters off North Korea as early as next week.
The mission, to be conducted in the Sea of Japan by ships assigned to the Navy’s 7th fleet, will help lay the foundation for a system to detect and intercept ballistic missiles launched by “rogue nations.” Washington hopes to complete the network over the next several years.
“We are on track,” Vice Admiral Jonathan Greenert, commander of the 7th Fleet, told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday aboard the USS Coronado, which is based just south of Tokyo. “We will be ready to conduct the mission when assigned.” ‘Highest priority’ The deployment will be the first in a controversial program that is high on President Bush’s defense agenda. Bush cleared the way to build the system two years ago by withdrawing from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which banned ship-based missile defenses. He said protecting America from ballistic missiles was “my highest priority as commander in chief, and the highest priority of my administration.”
The project — likened to hitting a bullet with a bullet, only at three times the speed — is exceedingly complex, prompting many critics to argue that it will never be reliable or effective. It is also expensive, with an estimated price tag of $51 billion over the next five years. Even so, the missile threat is hard to deny. More than 30 nations have ballistic missiles, according to the U.S. Defense Department’s Missile Defense Agency. Though exact times depend on where the launch occurs, missiles could in less than 30 minutes reach virtually anywhere within the United States...
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Pyongyang Tests Missile Technology in Iran, U.S. Official SaysNorth Korea Tests Missile Engine
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North Korea claims to of produced nuclear weapons:
N. Korea makes nukes
29.09.2004 5.40 am
North Korea has turned 8000 spent nuclear fuel rods into weapons to deter a possible US nuclear strike, a North Korean minister said.
Warning that the danger of war on the Korean Peninsula "is snowballing", Vice-Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon blamed the US for intensifying threats to attack the communist nation.
But Choe told the United Nations General Assembly that North Korea was ready to dismantle its nuclear programme if Washington abandoned its "hostile policy".