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NORTH KOREA

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NORTH KOREA

 

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) has as it's aim the reunification of the Korean Peninsula under Pyonyang's totalatarian communist control.  The Ministry of People's Armed Forces is organizationally subordinate to the state and is controlled by the Korean Workers Party. The Korean Workers Party - through the auspices of the General Political Bureau and the Military Affairs Committee has broad policy-making resposnibility for military affairs. Within the Ministry of People's Armed Forces the General Political Bureau prepares military budgets and sets policy alongside the Military Affairs Committee.The General Political Bureau of the General Staff IS ONE OF 8 MAJOR ORGANISATIONS that constitutes the national command authority. The KWP Military Affairs Committee determines broad security policy, including basic military policy, political indoctrination of the armed services, resource allocation, and high-level personnel matters. The committee has under its jurisdiction both the regular and paramilitary forces. The Military Affairs Committee consists of between ten and twenty party officials, typically military officers.  The General Political Bureau guides and supervises party organizations and political activities at all levels of the ministry under direction of the party's Military Affairs Committee.

 

The standing military is huge. The military's participation in politics and governance of the country has been co-opted in terms of it's rough proportion to t

the share of the country's resources it commands.   Units have political officers down to the company level.  Within platoons, the assistant platoon leader handles political activities.

 

No known insignia or uniform accoutrement designates the assistant leader (Political Commissar).

 

Recruitment and selection of political officers vary with rank. Stringent selection requirements include prior military service, a family with a politically reliable background, and proven party loyalty. Political officers are trained at Kim Il Sung Political College and Kumsong Political College, among other institutions. Training focuses on politics, economics, party history, chuch'e (see Glossary) philosophy, and party loyalty. Upon graduating, students are appointed second lieutenants in political or political security positions in KPA units. Advanced political officer training also is provided.

Political officers for field-grade positions are selected by the political department at the corps level from party members in the corps headquarters. Supplemental training can include a sixmonth course at a political college. Candidates for positions at the division or higher level are identified by the Organization Department of the General Political Bureau of the KPA. They are then screened by the party committee and approved by the Secretariat of the party Central Committee before appointment as head of a political department at the division or higher level.

 


 

   

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