Chapter 563 563 North Korea's Armament Expansion

At the end of 1993, the world basically presented a stable and peaceful scene, the relatively large war no longer existed, and there was no too direct conflict between the two major powers on the surface.

On November 1, the city of Shinhwa, which had just had a prototype of the Korean Federation, officially began to perform some state functions as a unified country of the Korean Federation, and the city was almost built in just a few months, which naturally consumed a lot of manpower, material and financial resources. At present, only a few departments of the central government are basically operating in the city, and not all the central ministries of the federal government have begun to operate, only the more core ministries such as the Government Council, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance and other ministries will be officially put into operation. Other, more specific administrative powers and functions remain in the governments of the two administrative regions of North Korea and South Korea.

In fact, the DPRK Federal Assembly was elected on the basis of the members of the original representative bodies of the North and the South, and even if it was not elected by the people, neither the North nor the South Korean people had any opinions. The president is elected by the National Assembly, and the first president of the Korean Federation will be Kim Dae-jung, while Kim Yong-chun will serve as vice president. Because of the special circumstances, the DPRK Federation does not have the post of prime minister, and the vice president also has a lot of power, not just waiting for the president to take over after his braids.

The president and vice president of the DPRK Federation are inevitably divided between the north and the south, and this setup can be regarded as a strategy of decentralization and balancing.

At the present stage, the DPRK Federation is still mainly engaged in the integration of unified national defense and military forces and the voice of unified diplomacy, and the handling of state affairs in various details has not yet been put on the agenda, and the DPRK and the ROK are still taking care of their own affairs. In addition, the DPRK Federation needs to firmly control the financial power and delineate the distribution ratio with the finances of the administrative regions. In order to prevent the localities from having too much financial power and restraining the central government, Kim Dae-zhong and others tended to redistribute the bulk of the financial revenue to the central government. Of course, this also requires a clearer and more effective structure of the central government, and also needs to formulate more complex and perfect policies, which the current grass-roots government does not have, and needs to be built slowly.

The US troops stationed in the ROK have finally almost completely withdrawn, and before leaving, many US troops stationed in the ROK have destroyed many facilities at their US military bases in order to vent their anger. Because the property rights belong to South Korea, it is natural that the North Korean Federation should have applied for compensation to the United States, and it is estimated that there will be a lawsuit in between.

In fiscal 1994, the Ministry of Defense of the DPRK Federation allocated a military budget of up to $20 billion to consolidate the resources of the two militaries, build the defense infrastructure of the DPRK Federation, and purchase a series of important weapons and equipment.

At the instigation of Qi Yiming, the Ministry of Defense of the DPRK gritted its teeth and held that it was better to change the existing old armament than to directly equip it with new armament. In particular, China's willingness to provide certain technical assistance to the DPRK Federation has made the DPRK hope to build a small but capable armed force.

Zhou Yutong, the chief butler of Shenghua Group, is well versed in the self-esteem of the Korean sticks, so he specially tailored a series of weapons and equipment for the Korean Federal Army with Chinese-made weapons for the needs of the sticks.

On the basis of Sino-North Korean cooperation, Seunghua's ground vehicle research department redesigned their K1 tank for the Korean Federal Army, developing an almost completely different K1A1 main battle tank, replacing it with a Chinese-standard 125mm main gun, a Chinese-made diesel engine and suspension system, and using additional armor provided by China. In this way, although the K1A1 tank is still slightly inferior to the world's first-line tanks such as the M1 and Leopard 2, it can generally compare with the VT-1A tank that China uses for cheap export.

Other technologies, such as armored vehicles and self-propelled artillery, have also been provided by China to the DPRK and produced within the scope of its production license, which can basically be regarded as a subtype of China's foreign trade weapons that has been customized by the DPRK.

Naturally, China did not transfer technology to the Korean Federation in vain, and Qi Yiming would not fatten the Korean Federation to grab meat from China. The production licenses for these equipment are limited in quantity, and Qi Yiming did not transfer the technology to North Korea for some of the more critical components, but provided them by China on a fixed basis. The localization of these equipment can reach 60 to 70 percent at most, but the remaining 30 or 40 percent is an insurmountable obstacle.

In addition, the reason why China agreed to transfer technology to the Korean Federation was that the order volume of the Korean Federal Army was very large, and China also provided a part of the technology transfer as a sign of sincerity.

In addition to the K1A1 prototype from South Korea, China has also improved their self-developed KIFV amphibious tracked combat vehicle for the Korean Federation, with the corrected model KIFV-2. Because these two types of armored vehicles were originally owned by South Korea, China was not willing to open another production line for them to produce these backward things, so they simply sent parts and components for the North Koreans to do by themselves.

The 8-wheeled infantry fighting vehicle KAPC-3, the 6-wheeled KAPC-4 and the 4-wheeled KAPC-5 were all deformed on the basis of the VN-1, VN-2 and VN-3 exported by China.

NORINCO will produce more than 900 infantry fighting vehicles for the Korean Federal Army, with a total contract value of nearly US$1 billion, including technology transfer, logistics support and ammunition supply. The reason why the DPRK Ministry of Defense is willing to order so many infantry fighting vehicles from China is because after their calculations, even if they are self-produced, the cost is more expensive than that imported from China, and they will order a total of more than 1,500 wheeled infantry fighting vehicles to replace the old armored vehicles, and the financial pressure is still very great, so even if the DPRK Federation wants to cultivate its own production, it will also make careful calculations and reconcile.

Another kind of army equipment that the North Koreans have been waiting for for a long time is the self-propelled gun with a caliber of 155mm caliber and 52 times the diameter, which is extremely powerful and is also one of the best equipment in the Chinese army.

In the end, Qi Yiming gave in and unified the Korean Federation to order 100 self-propelled guns in China that were determined to be K-9, and transferred K-9 production technology to them to a limited extent. Originally, the North Koreans were still very interested in China's Dragon Tooth rocket artillery, Guardian rocket artillery, etc., but Qi Yiming did not give these things to death, and only sold them some SR-5 self-propelled rocket launchers of different calibers that can be loaded with 122mm and 300mm produced by North Industries to a limited extent. Technology certainly hasn't shifted to the past.

In order to integrate its unified army, the Korean Federation ordered a large number of weapons from China, and even light weapons were not spared, and the Korean Federal Army still adopted the design of China North Industry under the pressure of Qi Yiming.5 K8 automatic rifle of 8mm caliber. Naturally, this automatic rifle is something that China shamelessly stole from weapons that have not yet been designed, and its prototype is the XK8 calf automatic rifle, which was not adopted by South Korea in the 21st century.

This automatic rifle is on par with the Type 85-II automatic rifle of the Chinese standard in terms of performance, but differs from the other plane, using the 5. 8mm caliber. Picatinny rails are attached to the receiver to facilitate the installation of scopes and sighting devices. Available in single, triple and automatic and automatic mode, the gun fires at a theoretical rate of about 800 rounds per minute in fully automatic mode.

In terms of manufacturing, the manufacturing hours and complexity of the K8 rifle are higher than those of the Type 85-II rifle, and the cost of the DPRK's own production is also quite high, but the K8 does not need to be equipped with millions of units at once like the Chinese 85-II, and the North Korean army has only ordered 200,000 units at this stage, preparing to gradually replace the old weapons in service.

Qi Yiming has already decided that the aviation department of the Shenghua Group will assist the DPRK in developing the T-50 Golden Eagle advanced training aircraft, and at the same time develop a revised version of the light tactical attack aircraft. In terms of the main combat aircraft of the Air Force, the DPRK Federation has also finalized the purchase of Chinese-produced FC-9 heavy fighters as the main fighters with the current FC-1 Thunder. In addition, the number of Thunder fighters is also expected by the North Koreans to be further increased.

Most of the old MiG fighters of the DPRK have to be decommissioned, and some of the main fighters of the South Korean Air Force are not enough to defend the wider airspace, especially since the Korean Federation still has the intention of being different from Japan, and it cannot lose to the Air Self-Defense Force in terms of air force.

The DPRK Federation plans to purchase 40 FC-9 Shadow Leopard heavy fighters, and at the same time expand the fleet of FC-1 Thunder to 160 aircraft, and the new batch of Thunder will be the Thunder 3 produced by Chengfei. Version 0, which uses a small AESA radar and has more power, enhances multi-purpose capabilities. In fact, North Korea still needs more light fighters, but they see that they may be equipped with FA-50 fighters in the future, so they have reduced the number of fighters imported from China.

In addition, the Ministry of Defense of the DPRK is also very interested in the SCO's ongoing JAMTF program, and since the DPRK is not a member of the SCO, it may be slow to wait in line for JAMTF production orders, so this issue is still being discussed.

In addition, the DPRK Federal Navy has also ordered four 5,000-ton frigates from China, these four frigates are a miniametrical modification of China's Type 054A frigates, which are relatively similar in terms of weapon configuration and combat performance. Two of them were produced in China, and two were produced in the Korean Federation after the transfer of technology. At the same time, the Navy of the DPRK reserves the right to continue to make additional orders. In addition, the DPRK Federation has also ordered four S20 AIP submarines from Chinese warships to enrich the underwater fleet.

The DPRK Federation's large-scale military reform and equipment replacement have naturally attracted the attention of the world. And Japan is the one who feels the most deeply about this incident and is also worried about reality. As China continues to strengthen and even the Korean Peninsula unifies its military expansion, Japan, which has maintained its peaceful course for decades, has finally wavered.