Block C 3 World Issues And Strategic Perspectives (Korea)

Front 1

Where is the North Korean navy headquarted?

Back 1

Pyongyang

Front 2

What type of navy does North Korea possess?

Back 2

Brown water navy - primarily a coastal defense force

Front 3

What is the primary offensive mission of the North Korean navy?

Back 3

Supporting army actions against South Korea, particularly by inserting smallscale amphibious operations, SOF units, along the coast.

Front 4

Which are the main shipyard(s) for small and medium size North Korean submarines?

Back 4

Nampo and Wonsan Shipyard, but they have other small and meduim size shipyards along the two coast lines.

Front 5

Why are the approximately (40) North Korean guided missile boats a substantial threat?

Back 5

They have the capability of launching missile attacks against large vessels and are equipped with (2) to (4) 46km range Styx anti-ship missiles.

Front 6

How many navy fleets does North Korea maintain and what are they?

Back 6

The Naval Command has (2) seperate fleets; the East Sea Fleet and the Yellow Sea Fleet, with (16) combatant groups.

Front 7

Where is the North Korean Yellow Sea Fleet headquartered?

Back 7

Nampo, with major bases at Pipa-got and Sagot and smaller bases at Cho-so and Tasa-ri.

Front 8

Where is the North Korean East Sea Fleet headquartered?

Back 8

Toejo-dong, with major bases at Najin and Wonsan and lesser bases at Chaho, Changjn, Mayangdo and Puam-ni near the DMZ

Front 9

How many vessels are in the North Korean Yellow Sea Fleet?

Back 9

Approximately 300 vessels

Front 10

How many vessels are in the North Korean East Sea Fleet?

Back 10

Approximately 470vessels

Front 11

Which type of submarine is typically found in the North Korean navy?

Back 11

They have 20 some Romeo class that are outdated and slow.

Front 12

What type of missions are the North Korean Romeo class submarines capable of conducting?

Back 12

They are sufficiently capable of blocking sea lanes, attacking ROK surface vesels, emplace mines anywhere within ROK maritime territory, or secretly infiltrate commandos into the South.

Front 13

What type of ground to sea missiles does North Korean deploy on its eastern and western coasts?

Back 13

They deploy the 95km-range Samlet and Silkworm missiles. The Silkworm is capable of striking vessels near Inchon on the western coast and near Sokcho on the east coast.

Front 14

In addition to ground to sea missiles, what other coastal defense does North Korean deploy?

Back 14

North Korea's coastal defense artillery includes 122mm, 130mm and 152mm systems.

Front 15

What type of fighter aircraft are in the North Korea Air Order of Battle?

Back 15

MiG-15 FAGOT
MiG-17
MiG-19
MiG-21
MiG-23
Q-5 Fantan
MiG-29

Front 16

What type of helicopters are in the North Korean Air Order of Battle?

Back 16

Mi-2 HOPLITE
Mi-4 HOUND
Mi-8 HIP
U.S manufactured Hughes MD-500 helicopters

Front 17

What is the significants of North Korea having U.S manufactured Hughes MD-500 helicopters?

Back 17

ROK produces the same model helicopter for its armed forces, the DPRK could modify their Hughes helicopters to resemble the ROK counterparts to confuse CFC air defenses during SOF operations.

Front 18

Where is the Air Command for the North Korean Air Force?

Back 18

Chungwa

Front 19

What are the components of the North Korean air defense systems (IADS)?

Back 19

Interceptor aircraft, early warning (EW) and ground-controlled intercept radars, SAMS, a large number of air defense artillery weapons and barrage ballons.

Front 20

What is the weakness of the North Korean IADS?

Back 20

The bulk of North Korean radars are older vacuum tube models which limits continuous operations. The overall early warning and ground controlled intercept system is susceptible to saturation and jamming by a sophisticted foe with electronic warfare capabilities.

Front 21

Which types of transport aircraft are in the North Korean Air Order of Battle?

Back 21

More than 270 An-2 COLTS (good for SOF transport) and 10 An-24 COKEs

Front 22

Which SAMs are currently found in North Korea?

Back 22

SA-2 (Med-range/Med-alt)
SA-3 (Short-range/Low-alt)
SA-5 (Long-range/High-alt)
SA-7 (MANPADS)
SA-16 (MANPADS)

Front 23

What is North Korea's National goal?

Back 23

Since at least the mid-1990s, there has been a widespread view among
Korea observers that, because of severe economic decline, food shortages, and
related problems, regime survival has replaced reunification as Pyongyang’s
most pressing objective

Front 24

What is North Korea's idealology?

Back 24

Juche (self-reliance)

Front 25

Describe how North Korea initially became two seperate countries.

Back 25

Until the end of WorldWar II
in 1945, Korea had remained a single, ethnically and culturally homogenous country
for over a thousand years. Initially divided on a temporary basis by the United
States and Soviet Union along the 38th parallel to facilitate the surrender and demobilization of Japanese forces stationed in Korea

Front 26

Who is the founder and first leader of North Korea?

Back 26

Kim Il Sung

Front 27

Describe Kim Il Sung's idealology that is the foundation of North Korea.

Back 27

Ideological models (Stalin, Mao), “militarism”

Front 28

What is the KPA?

Back 28

(KPA) Korean People's Army. North Korea's army of over 1 million members making it the fourth largest in the world