TY - BOOK ID - 66227769 TI - The Armed Forces of North Korea : On the Path of the Songun AU - Mitzer, Stijn AU - Oliemans, Joost PY - 2020 SN - 9781910777145 PB - Warwick : Helion, DB - UniCat KW - KOREA (NORTH)--ARMED FORCES KW - KOREA (NORTH)--MILITARY POLICY UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:66227769 AB - This book seeks to bring order and coherence to the chaotic state of affairs in the intelligence community of North Korea-watchers, as well as to disprove the much-echoed stance that there is little to fear from the DPRK by providing information on a plethora of never-before described weapons systems and modernisation programmes. The book maps the most important events from the inconclusive ceasefire struck at the end of the Korean War, throughout the Cold War until modern day, and an especially heavy emphasis is placed on the current status of the Korean People's Army by examining their wealth of indigenously-designed weaponry. In the course of the book not only are many of the Korean People's Army's most secret projects and tactics unveiled, but also new light is shed on the deadly flare-ups between the North and the South, and novel evidence on tragic incidents such as the Cheonan sinking and Yeongpyeong bombing of 2010 is brought forth. ER -