quickly drove South Korean forces south and captured Seoul, with the tanks seeing little in the way of opposing tanks. North Korean tanks, supported by heavy...

this period Korea has moved from being an operator of United States designed and produced tanks to being the designer and manufacturer of tanks in its own...

Soviet/Russian and Chinese tank designs; namely by the T-62. At the beginning of the 21st century, North Korea was able to obtain T-72 tanks through various channels...

The Korean People's Army (KPA; Korean: 조선인민군; MR: Chosŏn inmin'gun) encompasses the combined military forces of North Korea and the armed wing of the...

P'okp'ung-ho (Korean: 폭풍호), officially the Chonma-215 and Chonma-216 are North Korean main battle tanks (MBT) developed in the 1990s. The tank may incorporate...

military formation of the Korean People's Army. It was North Korea's first armored unit and took part with T-34-85 tanks in the Korean War. The division...

arms force including tanks supported by heavy artillery. The ROK had no tanks, anti-tank weapons, or heavy artillery. The South Koreans committed their forces...

is one of North Korea's secretive indigenous main battle tank designs. The tank is also known by the name of 천리마 전차 (千里馬 or the "Chollima Tank")[citation...

provided as an overview of and topical guide to North Korea: North Korea is a sovereign country located on the northern half of the Korean Peninsula in East...

in tank design, the first American tanks to see service were copies of French light tanks and a joint heavy tank design with the United Kingdom. In the...

300 tanks, 2,500 armored vehicles, 8,600 artillery guns, 5,500 multiple rocket launchers. Crucially, the North Korean Army has large numbers of heavy...

government of North Korea and the government of South Korea claim to be the sole legitimate government of the whole of Korea. The de facto end of the Korean War...

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula...

battle tanks, 560 light tanks, and 2,500 armoured personnel carriers (both tracked and wheeled) in service. In 2024, the IISS estimated that North Korea had...

Park (Korean: 박연미; born October 4, 1993) is a North Korean defector, YouTuber, author, and American conservative activist, described as "one of the most...

Relations between North Korea and the United States have been historically hostile. The two countries have no formal diplomatic relations. Instead, they...

North Korea has a military nuclear weapons program and, as of 2024, is estimated to have an arsenal of approximately 50 nuclear weapons and sufficient...

the tank. Since Koreans had not made tanks before, they would be unable to produce tanks as they did not understand the structure and technology of the...

designs. Several tanks were used in Iran in the 1930s (such as 100 of the FT tank) as it ordered and had delivered in 1937-38 tanks such as the CKD AH-IV...

western countries known as the PT-85, is a North Korean amphibious light tank. It is built for the needs of their army, with around 500 examples operated...

Pokpung (Korean: 폭풍 작전, lit. 'Storm') was the military invasion of the Republic of Korea (ROK) by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) that...

to produce tanks which later made the famous T-34 and other Soviet tanks. Imperial Russia had flirted with some designs such as the Tsar Tank which was...

The history of North Korea began with the end of World War II in 1945. The surrender of Japan led to the division of Korea at the 38th parallel, with the...

Beyond Sosa the North Koreans had heavily mined the highway and on 19 September the tank spearheads stopped after mines damaged two tanks. Engineers began...

Tanks were an important weapons system in World War II. Although tanks in the inter-war years were the subject of widespread research, few were made,...

of American tanks from the end of World War II and during the Cold War. In the Korean War M24 Chaffees were the first U.S. tanks to fight the North Korean...

offensive into North Korea was a large-scale offensive in late 1950 by United Nations (UN) forces against North Korean forces during the Korean War. On 27...

spring or summer of 1945, which marked a new era of french tanks in post-war era when French tanks needed to be modernized. Various tank designs were built...

Korean People's Navy (KPN), is the naval component of the Korean People's Army, the North Korean armed forces. There are some 780 vessels including 70...

states of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) under the provisions of the Korean Armistice...