North Korean Winter Uniform - Korean War

[jlh]

Here's something I'd been chasing for a year and a half and finally got a good friend of mine to let it go.

The jacket, pants, and boots are all Chinese manufactured and supplied to the North during the war. Chinese-made KPA gear was sage green, as opposed to the standard olive, brown, or khaki North Korean-made gear. The hat and mittens are both North Korean hamlet/sweatshop made.

This model of uniform is actually the very model that caused so much confusion between North and South soldiers early on. It is almost an identical copy of the South Korean winter uniform.

Everything is pre-1953.

Enjoy!

Jack

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Captured North Korean soldier wearing this model of uniform. Note the POW tag.

[Cap Camouflage Pattern I]

Now that is super cool, or warm I guess.really nice that you got the complete uniform.

[RRA227]

Great uniform. Rich A. in Pa.

[jlh]

Thanks for the comments. Very happy to have this in my collection.

[jayhawkhenry]

Nice uniform and hard to find.  My father told stories of making North Korean prisoners throw their quilted uniforms in a pile and the GI's burned them.  He said they all had lice.