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Military branches	North Korean Peoples Army: Ground Forces, Navy, Air Force; civil security forces (2005)

Military service age and obligation	17 years of age (2004)

Manpower available for military service	males age 17-49: 5,851,801 females age 17-49: 5,850,733 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service	males age 17-49: 4,810,831 females age 17-49: 4,853,270 (2005 est.)

Manpower reaching military service age annually	males age 18-49: 194,605 females age 17-49: 187,846 (2005 est.)

Refugees and internally displaced persons	IDPs: 50,000-250,000 (government repression and famine) (2006)

Military expenditures percent of gdp	NA

Trafficking in persons	current situation: North Korea is a source country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation; North Koreas own system of political repression includes forced labor in a network of prison camps where an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 persons are incarcerated; the illegal status of North Koreans in China and other countries increases their vulnerability to trafficking schemes and sexual and physical abuse; North Koreans forcibly returned from China may be subject to hard labor in prison camps operated by the government tier rating: Tier 3 - North Korea does not fully comply with minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so

Disputes international	risking arrest, imprisonment, and deportation, tens of thousands of North Koreans cross into China to escape famine, economic privation, and political oppression; North Korea and China dispute the sovereignty of certain islands in Yalu and Tumen rivers; Military Demarcation Line within the 4-km wide Demilitarized Zone has separated North from South Korea since 1953; periodic incidents in the Yellow Sea with South Korea which claims the Northern Limiting Line as a maritime boundary; North Korea supports South Korea in rejecting Japans claim to Liancourt Rocks (Tok-do/Take-shima)