North Korea Boosts Special Forces, Deploys New Battle Tanks
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North Korea bolstered the size of its special forces, deployed new battle tanks and increased its focus on unconventional warfare, according to a white paper from the South Korean Defense Ministry.
The number of lightly equipped special forces, trained to quickly infiltrate South Korea, increased by 20,000 to 200,000 over the past two years, the biennial defense paper released in Seoul showed.