North Korea Troop Estimation

Rocket Forces= 50,000 personnel

Special Operation Force=180,000 personnel

Army Air Force=110,000 personnel

Army Naval Force=148,000 personnel 

Army Ground Force=950,000 personnel

Active military=1,190,000 personnel

Reserve military=600,000 personnel

Active Reserve=4,500,000 personnel

Active Frontline= 690,000 personnel

Paramilitary=5,889,000 personnel

TOTAL POPULATION=24,852,000 people

조선인민군 육군

朝鮮人民軍 陸軍

Korean People's Army Ground Force

The annual report of North Korea's military capabilities by the U.S. Department of Defense, released in early 2014, identified the North Korean 

Army's strength at 950,000 personnel, 4,200 tanks, 2,200 armored vehicles, 8,600 artillery guns, and over 4,800 multiple rocket launchers

Korean People's Army Naval Force

조선인민군 해군

The 146,000-man (1999)

148,000 man (1997)

60,000 personnel (2014)

The Korean People's Army Air Force, (Chosŏn'gŭl: 조선인민군 공군; Hanja: 朝鮮人民軍 空軍),

 is the name of the unified aviation forces of North Korea. The KPAF is the second-largest branch of the Korean People's Army with an estimated 

110,000 personnel

North Korean Special Operation Force

Active October 30, 1968

Country North Korea

Branch Flag of the Korean People's Army (Fringed).png Korean People's Army

Type Special forces

Role Special operations

Size 180,000[1]

Nickname NKSOF

The Strategic Rocket Forces (Chosŏn'gŭl: 조선인민군 전략로케트군, Hanja: 朝鮮人民軍 戰略로케트軍),[2] also known as Missile Guidance Bureau 

(Chosŏn'gŭl: 미사일지도국; Hanja: 미사일指導局) is the strategic missile forces of North Korea. The SMF is a major division of the Korean People's 

Army that controls North Korea's nuclear and conventional strategic missiles. It is mainly equipped with surface-to-surface missiles of Soviet and 

Chinese design, as well as locally developed long-range missiles