Editing Korean People's Army (section)

===Soviet Korean Units===
Just after [[World War II]] ended and during the Soviet Union's occupation of the part of Korea north of the 38th Parallel, the Soviet [[25th Army (Soviet Union)|25th Army]] headquarters in Pyongyang issued a statement ordering all armed resistance groups in the northern part of the peninsula to disband on 12 October 1945. Two thousand Koreans with previous experience in the Soviet [[Red Army]] were sent to various locations around the country to organise [[constabulary]] forces with permission from Soviet military headquarters, and the force was created on 21 October 1945.<ref>Scobell & Sanford 2007, pp. 18–19.</ref>