North Korean Special Forces FROM THE PUBLISHER
North Korea fields one of the world's largest armies, tasked with annihilating U.S. and South Korean forces and reuniting the two Koreas. At the tip of the North Koreans' spear is the largest special operations force in the world. Here, a leading expert on the subject fully exposes and analyzes this dangerous threat. Updating and expanding his original 1988 study, Joseph Bermudez includes in this second edition all the new information gleaned from debriefings of North Korean special forces defectors, interviews with South Korean and U.S. intelligence personnel, recently declassified intelligence documents, and P'yongyang itself. An indispensable guide, the volume offers a gold mine of material about the special units and provides the first unclassified history of North Korea's intelligence services. It details the organization and equipment of North Korea's commandos, their missions and capabilities, and the threats they pose around the globe. The author fully describes the commandos' evolution from a small force in the 1950s to the present highly motivated, well-trained, and indoctrinated force of more than one hundred thousand troops, and he includes recently discovered material about their hidden role in the Korean War.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
Bermudez's second book on the subject brings readers up to date on the latest numbers, capabilities, and operations of the Korean People's Army special purpose forces. Using interviews with defectors and observations by various intelligence agencies, he covers everything from the bureaucratic organization of the forces to what individual soldiers in different types of units are likely to be carrying. He also deals with military assistance operations and terrorist activities and includes information on the infamous tunnels underneath the DMZ. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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