A prediction was suggestedIt has been predicted that an inspection on Defense Readiness Condition, which is treatedconducted annually by the military authorities, is not being carried out this year because the North Korean People’s Army was mobilized for the Spring Farm Supporting Activity.
Yonhap News reported on the 28th that “The North Korean troops stationed in the front and the rear are working fordoing farming-related work. The level of farm- supporting activities of by the army is drastically expanding compareding to the average year.”
It added that “The North Korean soldiers are hardly carrying out the militarymilitary drills.”
However, a source from North Korea released a different prediction from it in an telephone interview with the Daily NK, saying that “It is true that the People’s Army rushes into a preparatory training for the Summer Military Drill in May and June every year, but it is also a custom forof the army to be massively mobilized in a mass into the ‘Spring Rice-planting Battle’ in May.”
The source explained that “The authorities drive students and, workers as well as the army into the Spring Rice-planting Battle. Although the People’s Army will beshould concentratinge on the farming supporting activitiesy, the core of the military strength – such as the artillery corps, the navy and the air force – is not supposed to support farming.”
The People’s Army was generallyhas been conducting a generaln inspection over its the defense readiness conditionsituation in May and June. It iswas known that North Korea is carrying out the two typimes of military drills: the summer drill is for an “onsite blow (attack)” and the winter drill, from December to February, is for a “defense drill.”
Rodong Shinmun implied on the 10th through an editorial that the military was being mobilized into farming, as relaying that “The People’s Army is showing itself a respectable paragon of the Party’s farming revolution policy.”
