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}} |image = |caption = Flag of the Korean People's Army. |image2 = |caption2 = |founded = 25 April 1932 (claimed) 8 February 1948 (current form) |branches = |headquarters = Pyongyang, North Korea |commander-in-chief_title = |commander-in-chief = Marshal Kim Jong-un |minister_title = |minister = General Pak Yong-sik |commander_title = |commander = General Ri Yong-gil |anniversaries = 25 April |conscription = 17 years of age |manpower_data = |manpower_age = 15-29 |available=6,515,279 |available_f=6,418,693 |fit=4,836,567 |fit_f=5,230,137 |reaching=207,737 |reaching_f=204,553 |active = }} |reserve = |amount = ~$15 billion 〔http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/spending.htm World Wide Military Expenditures〕 |percent_GDP= 20.8%〔http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/dprk/budget.htm〕〔http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/06/north-korea-in-financial-trouble-after-blowing-100-million-on-tributes-to-dead-leader-kim-jong-il/〕 |domestic_suppliers = |foreign_suppliers= |exports = |ranks = Comparative military ranks of Korea |history= Korean War Korean DMZ Conflict Vietnam War Yom Kippur War }} The Korean People's Army (KPA; Chosŏn'gŭl: ; ''Chosŏn inmin'gun'') constitutes the military defence forces of North Korea. Kim Jong-un is the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and Chairman of both the Central Military Commission and National Defence Commission. The KPA defence consists of five branches: Ground Force, the Navy, the Air Force, the Strategic Rocket Forces, and the Special Operation Force. The Worker-Peasant Red Guards also come under control of the KPA. The KPA faces its primary adversaries, the Republic of Korea Armed Forces and United States Forces Korea, across the Korean Demilitarized Zone, as it has since the Armistice Agreement of July 1953. , with 9,495,000 active, reserve, and paramilitary personnel, it is the fourth largest military organization on Earth. This number represents nearly 40% of the population, and is the numeric equivalent of the entire population between ages 20 and 45.〔http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/census/2010_PHC/North_Korea/Final%20national%20census%20report.pdf〕 ==History== North Korea officially dates the foundation of the KPA back to the establishment of Kim Il-sung's anti-Japanese guerrilla army. In the 1970s, "Military Foundation Day" was changed from 8 February to 25 April, the nominal day of establishment of this army in 1932.〔See "Puk chuyo’gi’nyŏm’il 5-10 nyŏnmada taegyumo yŏlpyŏngsik" (North Korea Holds Large Military Parades for Anniversaries Every 5-10 years), Chosŏn Ilbo, 25 April 2007; Chang Jun-ik, "Pukhan Inmingundaesa" (History of the North Korean Military), Seoul, Sŏmundang, 1991, pp. 19-88; Kim Kwang-su, "Chosŏninmingun’ŭi ch’angsŏlgwa palchŏn, 1945~1990" (Foundation and Development of the Korean People’s Army, 1945~1990), Chapter Two in Kyŏngnam University North Korean Studies Graduate School, Pukhan’gunsamunje’ŭi chaejomyŏng (The Military of North Korea: A New Look), Seoul, Hanul Academy, 2006, pp. 63-78.〕 In 1939, the Korean Volunteer Army (KVA), was formed in Yan'an, China. The two individuals responsible for the army were Kim Tu-bong and Mu Chong. At the same time, a school was established near Yan'an for training military and political leaders for a future independent Korea. By 1945, the KVA had grown to approximately 1,000 men, mostly Korean deserters from the Imperial Japanese Army. During this period, the KVA fought alongside the Chinese communist forces from which it drew its arms and ammunition. After the defeat of the Japanese, the KVA accompanied the Chinese communist forces into eastern Jilin, intending to gain recruits from ethnic Koreans in China, particularly from Yanbian, and then enter Korea.〔Elleman, Bruce. ''Beijing's Power and China's Borders: Twenty Neighbors in Asia''. Routledge (2014). pp. 116-117〕 By September 1945, the KVA had a 2,500 strong force at its disposal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Korean People's Army」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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