News photos of the day: 39th Army Drills Near Korean

Elements from the Artillery Regiment, 116th Mechanized Infantry Division, 39th Group Army confirmed.


China Stages Drills Near Korean Peninsula
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The exercises also came amid reports of the ouster of North Korean eminence grise Jang Song-taek.

The Shenyang Military Region, one of seven military regions in the Chinese People's Liberation Army that would be mobilized in an emergency on the Korean Peninsula, last Wednesday began cold-weather exercises in and around Mt. Baekdu, which marks the border with North Korea, the official Chinese military paper said Saturday.

Choe and Pak in Media Limelight- Daily NK

39th Army Moves to Border Region Daily NK
Around three thousand personnel affiliated with the Shenyang Military Region moved to the Mt. Baekdu area in the early hours of the 4th, the Chinese military ...