Cover Image Attribute: Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his daughter Kim Ju Ae and senior military officials, aboard the Choe Hyon. Image: DPRK via Chinese social mediaFor more than seven decades, the Korean People's Army Navy (KPAN, 조선인민군 해군) occupied an unenviable position within North Korea's military hierarchy: the weakest of all services, chronically underfunded, technologically stagnant, and confined almost entirely to coastal operations. Its s…
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