{"id":38765,"date":"2018-12-04T17:06:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T08:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=38765"},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:38:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:38:34","slug":"north-korea-prepares-for-annual-winter-military-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-prepares-for-annual-winter-military-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea prepares for annual winter military exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38766\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38766\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/\uc11c\uc6b8\ub958\uacbd\uc218\uc81c105\ud0f1\ud06c\uc0ac\ub2e8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38766\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/\uc11c\uc6b8\ub958\uacbd\uc218\uc81c105\ud0f1\ud06c\uc0ac\ub2e8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/\uc11c\uc6b8\ub958\uacbd\uc218\uc81c105\ud0f1\ud06c\uc0ac\ub2e8.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/\uc11c\uc6b8\ub958\uacbd\uc218\uc81c105\ud0f1\ud06c\uc0ac\ub2e8-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/\uc11c\uc6b8\ub958\uacbd\uc218\uc81c105\ud0f1\ud06c\uc0ac\ub2e8-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/\uc11c\uc6b8\ub958\uacbd\uc218\uc81c105\ud0f1\ud06c\uc0ac\ub2e8-696x450.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/\uc11c\uc6b8\ub958\uacbd\uc218\uc81c105\ud0f1\ud06c\uc0ac\ub2e8-650x420.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Korean People&#8217;s Army winter river-crossing drill (January 2018). Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea is busy preparing for its winter civil joint exercises that start annually in December. Preparations include the holding of emergency meetings for the country&#8217;s civil defense forces, Daily NK sources report.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cArmed civilian units are busy preparing for the winter exercises all over the country,\u201d a source based in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on November 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea\u2019s winter exercises are similar to South Korea\u2019s military exercises that are designed to test the soldiers\u2019 mettle in difficult, frigid conditions. North Korea has paramilitary units and Worker-Peasant Red Guards (paramilitary force with older members and North Korea\u2019s largest civil defense force) included in the training along with regular military units. Civilians conduct blackout and evacuation exercises. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year\u2019s exercises will have the paramilitary training units training for the month of December, while red guard units will conduct them over two weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A separate source in North Hamgyong Province said, \u201cThe authorities are gathering armed civilian units to conduct preliminary discussions and political lectures in advance of the winter exercises across North Hamgyong Province, including Chongjin and Rason. Some units are preparing for the exercises by picking up supplies using trucks.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He continued, &#8220;The\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">paramilitary training units and red guard units are wearing their winter uniforms and gathering food and other supplies to use during the training period.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Officers who lead the paramilitary training units, which are affiliated with unit members\u2019 workplaces, are collecting resources from workers for use during the exercises. In reality, however, each unit member is deemed responsible for sourcing their own food for the period. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea has had a particularly difficult food situation this year. With a view to lifting the spirits of unit members, however, the authorities have handed down an order for white rice to be provided on December 27, when each unit conducts live-fire exercises (the day also commemorates the founding of the country\u2019s constitution). Units are currently collecting rice for the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe farms have harvested their crops and the units have prepared corn rice for the training period. This means that individual members don\u2019t have to collect their own food for that day,\u201d a source in South Hamgyong Province said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMilitary and reserve units will conduct joint exercises as if it\u2019s a real war. Firing exercises will occur near the end of the training period. Usually the exercises involve unit members shooting three rounds each, but this year it&#8217;s only one round.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea is busy preparing for its winter civil joint exercises that start annually in December. Preparations include the holding of emergency meetings for the country&#8217;s civil defense forces, Daily NK sources report.\u00a0 \u201cArmed civilian units are busy preparing for the winter exercises all over the country,\u201d a source based in North Hamgyong Province told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":38766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,645,646],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-economy","category-military"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>North Korea prepares for annual winter military exercises - North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-prepares-for-annual-winter-military-exercises\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"North Korea prepares for annual winter military exercises\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"North Korea is busy preparing for its winter civil joint exercises that start annually in December. 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