About the book: 2012 / This book covers the period from the emergence of anti-Japanese armed forces of the Korean communists in the 1930s. to the present day, including the latest clashes with South Korean armed forces in the Yellow Sea. The evolution of Pyongyang's military machine, military doctrine, nuclear missile and related space programs, organizational structure of formations and units, combat composition and deployment (echelon) of the DPRK armed forces, operational-tactical and tactical standards for conducting combined arms combat and marching of combined arms are characterized. units, personnel and militia training system, military education, ideological indoctrination of personnel, etc..