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Worker-Peasant Red Guards

Worker-Peasant Red Guards
로농적위군
Emblem of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards
FoundedJanuary 1959; 66 years ago (1959-01)
Country North Korea
AllegianceKim Jong Un[1]
TypeParamilitary militia
Role
  • Civil Defense
  • Defensive Operations
  • Assistance in maintaining public order
Size5 million personnel
ColorsFront:

Back:
Regimental standard


Banner used by militia units
Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl
로농적위군
Hancha
勞農赤衛軍
Revised RomanizationRonongjeogwigun
McCune–ReischauerRonongjŏgwigun
Worker-Peasant Red Guards at the Samjiyon Grand Monument (삼지연대기념비).

The Worker-Peasant Red Guards (WPRG; Korean: 로농적위군), also translated as Workers and Peasants' Red Militia (WPRM),[2] is a paramilitary force in North Korea as the largest civil defense force in North Korea.

Worker-Peasant Red Guards at the 2023 September military parade
  1. ^ "North Korean military takes oath of loyalty". www.enca.com. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  2. ^ Scalapino, Robert A.; Lee, Chong-sik (1972). Communism in Korea: The society. University of California press. p. 948. ISBN 9780520022744.
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