US GFP “Korea’s military power is the 6th in the world… North Korea 25th → 28th drop”

-Global Fire Power (GFP), a US military power evaluation agency, evaluated that Korea’s military power is the sixth strongest in the world.

According to a report by GFP on the 16th (Korean time), Korea has the 6th strongest military power out of 138 countries with a military power evaluation index of 0.1621. This is the same ranking as last year.

North Korea ranked 28th with an evaluation index of 0.4684, down three places from last year’s 25th. North Korea received high praise for its troop size and number of tanks, rocket launchers, self-propelled artillery, submarines, frigates, patrol ships, and fighters.

The country with the strongest military power in the world was the United States, followed by Russia, China, India, and Japan. The country with the most defense spending was also the United States, which spent $740.5 billion. It is more than four times that of China ($1782 billion), the second place. In terms of national defense expenditures calculated by GFP, South Korea ranked 8th with $48 billion, one notch higher than last year, and North Korea ranked 59th with $3.5 billion. It occupied and rose 15 places from 74th place last year. Meanwhile, GFP calculates the military strength index by combining 48 items including population, troops, weapons, and defense budget. The closer the index is to 0, the stronger the military power is.

Chi-Hoon Song, reporter of Donga.com [email protected]