Courtesy of reader Matthew, we have this DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) short overview of North Korean small arms to share with you. It’s appropriately timed, as tomorrow I am posting a video on a North Korean Type 68 pistol…
North Korean Small Arms, 7.4MB (English, 1983)
The “Hermit Kingdom” of North Korea has a number of somewhat unusual military firearms that are not quite direct copies of anything else, but we very rarely get to see example of them up close. […]
Note: I mistakenly referred to North Korea in the video, when this was actually made in South Korea. Sorry! During (and probably for a short time after) the Korean War, a Korean facility called the […]
The Type 68 is a North Korean hybrid of the Tokarev and the High Power, used as a military service pistol until replaced by the Beak-Du-San copy pop the CZ75. The general outline of the […]
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Is the Neg. 529363 Figure 174.1. The North Korean Type 68 machinegun.
same weapon as Type 73:
https://modernfirearms.net/en/machineguns/north-korea-machineguns/type-73-eng/
or are these two totally separate and different weapons?
So the Type 73 is quite different than the Type 68, the 73 is vaguely similar to PK but it is closer to the Vz.52 LMG or maybe the Bren gun. The grenade launcher (lmao) sleeve on the Type 73 is not present on the 68, and more tellingly the sights on the 68 are not offset to accommodate the top mounted magazine. It also doesn’t look like the 73 has ladder-style sights.
Funny that the DIA characterizes the European ambi butt-located mag catch as a product improvement. Author must’ve been a damn sinister like Ian.
improvement from maybe one-sided mag release?
But I want the video nowwwww
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
KPA infiltrators, trained as they are to commit suicide by _biting off their own tongues_ don’t need no handguns to shoot themselves…
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