North Korea has been able to stem the decline its military was experiencing due to several years of severe economic turmoil. In the last few years, U.S. intelligence officials detected a reduction in the amount of training North Korean military forces were able to obtain. It raised the prospect that the economic decline affecting the country was starting to chip away at the military, the pillar of the Kim Jung-Il regime. "The military has suffered, but not suffered as badly" as the rest of the country, one intelligence official said.
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