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Date : April 6, 2020
IT students for Strategic Military Command
   https://www.dailynk.com/english/n-korea-recruits-information-technolog [762]
N. Korea recruits IT students for Strategic Military Command

North Korean authorities are recruiting large numbers of technology and science students for a special military unit tha oversees North Koreas ballistic missiles, the Strategic Military Command, Daily NK has learned.

The mass recruitment efforts are likely part of North Korean leader Kim Jong Uns desire to deploy the countrys new weaponry into the field, a goal he announced during the plenary meeting of the partys Central Committee in December of last year. 

A Kangwon Province-based military source alerted Daily NK to the regimes recruitment efforts on Mar. 31. 

An order by the Supreme Commander [Kim Jong Un] was issued on Mar. 25 to the provinces Military Mobilization Office to recruit all graduates of the provinces Information Technology Academy into the Strategic Military Command, the source said. ......

[Source: Daily NK]


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