North Korea ‘setting up nuclear backpack attack units’, says report

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Battalion sized nuclear backpack units are being set up by North Korea.

In line with their usual bravado, the accompanying picture above shows what they are displaying as nuclear backpacks.

Below is an actual ancient US Special Forces nuclear backpack. It’s quite a bit larger and very much heavier.

This is, of course, North Korean propaganda. The DPRK supposedly has between 10 – 15 nuclear devices, but backpack sized? Me thinks not.

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Gabriel Dominguez, London – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly

31 August 2016

Top soldiers from North Korea’s military have reportedly been selected to serve on units that would carry nuclear devices in backpacks and detonate them behind enemy lines in the event of a war.

On 29 August Radio Free Asia cited an unnamed source in North Korea as saying that: “Outstanding soldiers were selected from each reconnaissance platoon and light infantry brigade to form the nuclear backpack unit the size of a battalion.”

The special units have been formed since March, the source added.

It is not clear whether the units would operate as suicide squads.

Source: http://www.janes.com/article/63324/north-korea-setting-up-nuclear-backpack-attack-units-says-report

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