What milsurps might North Korea have tucked away in storage?

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With the inevitable outcome being that either A) the north goes to war with the rest of the world and eventually loses or B) the north gets absorbed into the south through peaceful negotiations etc, its safe to say that the world might in our lifetimes get to see the sorts of arms the North has had cached away since ww2.

In the same light as all of the Soviet stuff now turning up in Ukraine salt mines and caches etc, is it safe to assume North Korea might have some vast stores of former soviet as well as chinese and its own NK manfuctured firearms?

If much was stored, what might it be? and what kind of condition might it be in? Might the weather in the area have proved hard for long term firearms storage on non-primary use weapons?

With the way the South is trying to sell off Garands etc to raise money, is it safe to assume that a reunified Korea (under southern control) might look to sell off the vast North Korea firearms inventory it will no longer need as a means to fund the costs involved with reunification and bettering the norths basic and greatly needed infrastructure?
 
angrysoldier said:
anything and everything would be seen.
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Yup. The Chinese People's Volunteer army sent men into Korea with everything from Mausers to Mosin Nagants to Arisakas, and from what I understand, the North Koreans were armed similarly. Whatever was leftover they probably kept, including captured US small arms.

I would guess that the North Korean's weapons aren't in as good condition or stored as well as the old Soviet stuff, but I may be wrong.
 
The amount of money the Koreans would get for the firearms they want to sell is peanuts. It really smells like some wealthy bureaucrat managed to get title to the weapons at scrap metal prices and saw a way to become quite wealthy in a personal way.

As far as North Korea goes, they should have a stockpile of just about everything. Chinese, Japanese, British, Canadian, US, German, Australian, Indian etc.

They fought the Japanese to a virtual standstill for years when Japan tried to occupy Korea. They captured thousands of prisoners and their weapons as well. When they over ran South Korea they captured a cross section of everything from artillery and aircraft to vehicles, small arms, uniforms, food, ammunition and spare parts.

I talked to a US stores clerk and he told me they just came in and told them to hurry the hell up and get on a truck to bug out if they didn't want to spend the next 20 years in a NK POW camp. They didn't have time to destroy the depot and it was the main US supply and storage depot just north of Seoul. There was enough kit there to completely outfit 10,000 soldiers. It was left behind for the taking.
 
Gazillions of chinese AKs, and tons and tons of SKS's. Lots of M1s,Garands, enfields, stens, Brens, tommy guns, Mausers, MB jeeps, M38 jeeps, douce and a halfs, shermans, bren gun carriers, helmets, toilet paper, and stationary from the government of every NATO country. I'd say they have a smattering of most small arms used in the last 60 years. Even some Daisy BB guns for the kids. ...and of course Norinco CQ .556's, just to make things sporting with the folks to the south.
 
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Hey! Maybe they have some of those 30,000 missing Chinese-contract 1879 Remington-Lee rifles!

Wouldn't put it past them.

They will also have Japanese AND Chinese Arisakas.

I want one of the Lees!
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There's likely a smorgasbord of stuff from around the world.

Probably a fair share of 8mm Brens and Hi-Power pistols from J. Inglis and Co. as they made a lot of Lend Lease stuff for the Chinese, before the PLA took over and kept what was already there.

Here's a list of what the Chinese had pre-1949, I'm sure lot of surplus stuff found its way into N.Korea.

http://www.ww2f.com/war-pacific/39206-chinese-weapons-pre-post-ww2.html
 
You know what aside from any milsurp style gun I can think about whether it be them having SKS's, AK's, Hi-Powers, and the works. I wouldn't doubt if they had any of these:

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The DPRK (ie North Korea) has a very big military. The USMC country handbook I read listed forty or fifty types of tube artillery, mortars and coastal defence guns. Some of this, a dozen of those, and all sorts of crap in between. Including many very archaic Soviet guns. As long as the ordinance system knows where to find the right unit, they will use whatever they have. Small arms are a more universal issue item. The fourth and fifth-class reserve units very likely have rifles in some standardized cartridge, or regional concentration of certain types. Where or what they have is anyone's guess.
 
smellie said:
Hey! Maybe they have some of those 30,000 missing Chinese-contract 1879 Remington-Lee rifles!

Wouldn't put it past them.
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Has anyone ever found any history as to where these went after they were first shipped to China, if even only part of where they went?
 
No one has mentioned the North Korean manufactured SKSs. They are incredibly rare. I think one sold in the US recently in the $1200 range.
 
I would image that they have a good stock of US weapons that they got from the South or from the Americans themselves. The 1st Cavalry Division lost so much kit and equipment to the NKs and Chicoms that they were known as "the Chinese Quartermaster."

I'll be waiting...

Dave
 
Just offer the starving NK one free Big Mac for every rifle turn in. Should be a piece of cake to disarm these crazy commies.
 
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