North Korea 'setting up nuclear backpack attack units', says report

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North Korea 'setting up nuclear backpack attack units', says report
By: Gabriel Dominguez, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly - 31 August 2016
RE: http://www.janes.com/article/63324/n...ts-says-report

Top soldiers from North Korea's military have reportedly been selected to serve on units that would carry nuclear devices in backpacks and detonate them behind enemy lines in the event of a war.

On 29 August Radio Free Asia cited an unnamed source in North Korea as saying that: "Outstanding soldiers were selected from each reconnaissance platoon and light infantry brigade to form the nuclear backpack unit the size of a battalion."

The special units have been formed since March, the source added.

It is not clear whether the units would operate as suicide squads.