{"title":"The North Korean Army; History, Structure, Daily Life","authors":"Glyn Ford","doi":"10.1080/03068374.2023.2251859","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Everything about North Korea is murky, but certain areas are murkier than others. One especially gloomy corner has been the Korean People’s Army (KPA). Some English-language light was thrown on the KPA on a macro level almost a quarter of a century ago by Joseph Bermudez Jr. with his North Korean Special Forces (1998) and The Armed Forces of North Korea (2001). Since then, we’ve been left in the dark. Tertitskiy addresses that to a degree. Parts two and three of his trilogy bring some new things to the table. In the history section of part one, there is a lot of academic shadow-boxing with unknown rivals, to little avail. Few readers will give a damn whether Kim Il Sung was prescient enough to name his guerrilla band the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army (KPRA) on the 25 April 1932 or whether the KPA waited to be born with its first parade on 8 February 1948. Pyongyang celebrates both with primacy waxing and waning with political fashion.","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2023.2251859","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Everything about North Korea is murky, but certain areas are murkier than others. One especially gloomy corner has been the Korean People’s Army (KPA). Some English-language light was thrown on the KPA on a macro level almost a quarter of a century ago by Joseph Bermudez Jr. with his North Korean Special Forces (1998) and The Armed Forces of North Korea (2001). Since then, we’ve been left in the dark. Tertitskiy addresses that to a degree. Parts two and three of his trilogy bring some new things to the table. In the history section of part one, there is a lot of academic shadow-boxing with unknown rivals, to little avail. Few readers will give a damn whether Kim Il Sung was prescient enough to name his guerrilla band the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army (KPRA) on the 25 April 1932 or whether the KPA waited to be born with its first parade on 8 February 1948. Pyongyang celebrates both with primacy waxing and waning with political fashion.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.
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