Talk:Korean People's Army Ground Force

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[edit] List of Equipment

I have created the list of equipment of the North Korean Ground Forces. Updates, comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Mathieu121 10:49, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I would suggest an introduction. Hut 8.5 17:06, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Three different types of assault rifles are currently in service with the North Korean military. First one is the Type 58 rifle which is a licensed copy of AK-47, second is the Type 68 which is a copy of AKM and third is the Type 88 which is a copy of AK-74 rifle. The North Korean military does not use SVD Dragunov sniper rifle. They use a rifle called JeoGyeokBoChong (or 저격보총 in Korean) which is based on Yugoslavian Zastava M76 sniper rifle. There are two other known light machine guns that are in service with the North Korean military. One is the Type 73 LMG and not much is known about this weapon except that it looks like a combination of Russian PK and British Bren or Czech Vz52 machine guns (it somewhat looks like a PK, then it's a magazine-fed only and the magazine is top-mounted). The other is the Type 82 rifle. Although the existence of the Type 82 has been confirmed in 2002, very little is known about this weapon except the fact that it is a belt-fed-only weapon. The North Korean military does not have T-72. All the info was found in this website: http://bemil.chosun.com/ (a South Korean military info portal)

[edit] Ground Forces

I was always under the impression that the ground forces were the KPA and that the Navy and Air Force were simply specialized corps of the KPA. All this due to the dominance of the Army (sic), like the United States Army Air Corps and the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service.--71.185.193.98 02:02, 3 October 2007 (UTC)