People's Army: The Military Power of North Korea

North Korean Military Power, Nuclear Strategy, Missiles, and Korean Peninsula DeterrenceBy Andrew Scobell, John M. Sanford, Daniel A. Pinkston, Strategic Studies Institute U.S. Congress, Donald Trump

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People's Army: The Military Power of North Korea offers a rigorous, multidimensional examination of the Korean People's Army as an instrument of regime survival, coercive diplomacy, and regional strategic calculation. Combining strategic assessment, institutional analysis, historical synthesis, and policy-oriented argument, the volume situates conventional forces, missile and nuclear ambitions, special operations, and civil-military control within the wider security architecture of Northeast Asia. Its strongest contributions lie in demonstrating that North Korean military power cannot be reduced to troop numbers or matériel: it is inseparable from ideology, political discipline, economic constraint, and deterrence. The contributors—including analysts associated with the Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. congressional and policy communities—bring complementary expertise in Asian security, military affairs, intelligence assessment, and statecraft. Their perspectives emerge from the post-Cold War strategic studies tradition, attentive to proliferation, alliance management, asymmetric warfare, and the enduring consequences of the Korean War. Read alongside the political context represented by U.S. policymaking voices, these analyses illuminate the contested assumptions that shape international responses to Pyongyang. This volume is recommended for students, scholars, military professionals, and informed readers seeking a grounded account of North Korea's armed forces. Its varied approaches provide both historical depth and policy relevance, inviting readers to compare competing assessments of capability, intention, and risk within a single, intellectually cohesive collection.

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GenreHistory, Literary Classics

Length13 hrs 45 mins

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Publish dateJul 3, 2020

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1The Cellular Cosmogony (Annotated)

2North Korea’s Military Threat

3Summary

4Introduction

5Conventional Forces

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6Unconventional Forces

7Overall Conclusions

8The North Korean Ballistic Missile Program

9Summary

10Introduction

11DPRK National Strategy and Motivations

12Historical Background of DPRK Missile Development

13Institutional Setting

14Conclusion

15U.S. Government Policy Toward North Korea

16Countering the North Korean Threat (New Steps in U.S. Policy)

17Introduction

18Witness Statements

19Statement of Victor Cha, PhD., Senior Adviser and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies

20Statement of Sue Mi Terry, PhD., Managing Director, Bower Group Asia

21Statement of Mr. Anthony Ruggiero, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

22Statement of the Honorable Robert L. Gallucci, Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

23Witness Additional Statements

24Appendix - Material Submitted for the Record

25The Honorable Eliot L. Engel, a Representative in Congress from the State of New York: Statement by Former Senator Sam Nunn

26The Honorable Tom Marino, a Representative in Congress from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Prepared statement

27The Honorable Gerald E. Connolly, a Representative in Congress from the Commonwealth of Virginia: Prepared statement

28Written responses from the witnesses to questions submitted for the record by: The Honorable Michael T. McCaul, a Representative in Congress from the State of Texas

29Written responses from the witnesses to questions submitted for the record by: The Honorable Brian K. Fitzpatrick, a Representative in Congress from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

30Pressuring North Korea (Evaluating Options)

31Introduction

32Witness Statements

33Statement of the Honorable Ted S. Yoho, a Representative in Congress From the State Of Florida, and Chairman, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific

34Statement of Mr. Bruce Klingner, Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia, the Heritage Foundation

35Statement of Sung-Yoon Lee, PhD., Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

36Statement of Mr. Anthony Ruggiero, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

37Witness Additional Statements

38Appendix - Material Submitted for the Record: The Honorable Gerald E. Connolly, a Representative in Congress from the Commonwealth of Virginia: Prepared statement

39The Honorable Gerald E. Connolly, a Representative in Congress from the Commonwealth of Virginia: Prepared statement

40President Donald Trump on Current Crisis on the Korean Peninsula

41A Message to the Congress of the United States on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to North Korea

42Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to North Korea

43Statement from the President on North Korea’s Second ICBM Launch

44Statement by President Donald J. Trump on North Korea

45About the Authors