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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003600390005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 12, 2017
• Sequence Number: 5
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2006/11/04: CIA-RDP80-0081OA003600390005-4
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
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RMORT NO.
Creation of a North Korean Army Reserve DATE DIM. 19 February 1954
Force in the Yonan Area, Uvanghae Province
NO. OF PAGES 1.
1. In accordance with a North Korean army general headquarters order calling for a
reserve forcel composed of village self-defense teams and various employee
groups, physical examinations were to be given in December 1953 to all men between
the ages of 18 and 40 years in the Yonan (BB-5198) area. After completion of the
physical examinations, military training instructors were to be assigned to each
village by the county Military Mobilization Bureau. Upon finishing their train-
ing, more than half the members of the village units were to be issued firearms for
use in guarding their villages and places of work. Incase of emergency, the units
would be called by the army.
2. In order to decrease evasion of service, each village sponsored training in
political education and, for the illiterate, reading and writing. So many young
men were weakening their health in order to avoid service that the Military
Mobilization Bureaus stated that those who were medically disqualified would be
given further examination at the Provincial Mobilization Bureau. Those whose
disquhlitication was the result of an intentional act would be punished. To keep
them from traveling, their citizenship cards would be confiscated until their health
was restored, and they would be under constant surveillance.
25X1 l,l_ Comment;. By early November 1953 the detailed regulations regarding the
reserve force had not yet been issued.
Approved For Release 2006/11/04: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA003600390005-4