Despite using many old weapons, the North Korean army is still considered a formidable force in the world.
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| The Korean People's Army (KPA) has 700,000 active soldiers and 4.5 million reservists. In addition, the country has about 13 million combat-ready personnel. Global Fire Power ranks North Korea 25th in the world in terms of military strength. |
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| The army is the largest and most important branch of the North Korean military. It has a large number of soldiers, but still mainly uses old weapons and equipment. |
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| The Pokpung-ho (left edge) is the most modern main battle tank developed by North Korea in the 1990s, based on the technology of the T-62, T-72 and Type-88 tanks. |
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| The strength of the North Korean army lies in its artillery force, which is considered to possess one of the largest numbers of artillery pieces in the world and highly trained gunners. |
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| North Korea has about 4,300 towed artillery pieces, 2,250 self-propelled guns and 2,400 multiple launch rocket systems. |
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| In addition, Pyongyang also deployed many large-caliber, long-range fixed artillery systems. Most of North Korea's main artillery types have a range that can reach the South Korean capital of Seoul. |
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| With 940 aircraft of all types, the North Korean Air Force ranks 10th in the world in terms of the number of fighter jets in service. The country possesses about 16 to 35 MiG-29 fighters and an unknown number of MiG-23MLs. These are North Korea's most modern fighter jets. |
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| The North Korean Air Force is considered too old, still operating many old fighter jets such as the MiG-17, MiG-19 and MiG-21. They are used for ground attack missions, instead of directly confronting more modern opponents such as the F-15, F-16 of the US and South Korea. |
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| The North Korean Navy is one of the largest submarine forces in the world. |
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| Pyongyang's surface fleet consists mainly of small patrol gunboats, but it is building at least two missile frigates with stealth features, based on designs from Myanmar. |
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| Pyongyang possesses a variety of short- and medium-range ballistic missiles such as Hwasong, Rodong, along with intercontinental ballistic missiles being tested such as Taepodong-2 and KN-08 with a range of over 10,000 km. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un recently announced that the country is in the final stages of a test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach the US. |
According to VNE
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