North Korea has the world's largest special-operations force. A defected spy offers hints about how they'd be used in a war.
Stavros Atlamazoglou
Oct 27, 2021, 6:22 PM
Kim Jong Un North Korean special operations forces
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspecting a North Korean military special-operation forces event in a photo released April 14, 2017. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Within North Korea's massive army is another massive force: some 200,000 special-operations troops.
Not much is known about those troops, but they are believed to well trained and highly motivated.
Pyongyang would likely deploy them before or early in a war to disrupt US and South Korean military operations.
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North Korea frequently taunts its rivals with a nuclear destruction, and despite its own dire economic and social situation, Pyongyang certainly has the military capabilities to instigate a war that could kill hundreds of thousands, if not millions.
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