Dear MEL Topic Readers,
North Korea claims almost 800,000 people have signed up for its
military to fight US
The Korean People's Army (KPA) is the military force of North Korea and
the armed wing of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). It consists of the Ground Force,
the Naval Force, the Air and Anti-Air Force, the Strategic Rocket Forces, and
the Special Operation Force. It is the world’s second-largest military organization
with nearly 30% of North Korea’s 25 million population, around 7.5 million,
actively serving, in reserve, or in paramilitary personnel, who usually work
for internal security such as guarding the residents and border patrols. Now,
in order to show off the nation’s solidity and commitment to defend the country
from the US, North Korea announced that as many as 800,000 citizens volunteered
to join or reenlist in the military on Mar 17 alone. Are those volunteers
already part of the massive five-million paramilitary force or the rest of the
population whose age and fitness are uncertain? Can the economically weak state
afford to keep firing long-range and intercontinental ballistic missiles and
maintain already-massive military personnel and equipment?
Read the article and learn about how desperate North Korea is to
encounter the unifying power between the US, South Korea, and Japan.
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