7/7/2023 0 Comments Korea tank battles![]() The outbreak of the Korean War, which lasted from June 1950 to July 1953, completely broke any relationship with South Korea, pushing North Korea to become even closer to the two communist regimes, even if, after Stalin’s death, the ties with the Soviet Union began to deteriorate. Most of the North Korean military’s early equipment was of Soviet origin, with thousands of weapons and ammunition and hundreds of T-34/76s, T-34/85s, SU-76s and IS-2s and Soviet-made aircraft arriving in North Korea. control, and became increasingly close to the two communist superpowers, the Soviet Union and the newly formed People’s Republic of China, which had recently ended its bloody civil war. Under his leadership, the newly formed country quickly broke off all relations with South Korea, under U.S. In the very last phases of the Second World War, between August and September 1945, Iosif Stalin’s Soviet Union occupied, in agreement with the United States, the northern part of the Korean peninsula, going as far down as the 38th parallel.īecause of the Soviet occupation, which lasted for three years and three months, the charismatic Kim Il-sung, who had been a guerrilla fighter against the Japanese during the occupation of Korea in the ’30s, and then continued to fight the Japanese during their invasion of China, became captain of the Red Army in 1941, and, with this title, in September 1945, he entered Pyongyang. It is also the first vehicle developed after the Songun-Ho was presented in a parade, in the same place, in 2010. ![]() However, it is an almost completely new design that seems to have very little in common with previous MBTs developed in North Korea. Thus, throughout this article, the vehicle will be referred to as “New North Korean MBT”. The Chosŏn-inmin’gun, or Korean People’s Army (KPA), has not yet officially presented the new tank or given a precise name, as it does for each vehicle of its arsenal due to the North Korean strategy of not revealing any details about their military equipment. ![]() Unfortunately, not much is known about this vehicle yet. The New North Korean MBT passing through Kim Il-sung Street showing off their new layout.
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