ABSTRACT
Throughout the Korean War each belligerent employed special operations. This essay focuses primarily on United Nations Command (UNC) special operations efforts, but also notes North Korean and Chinese special operations, for which information in English remains limited. 1 The principal sources of information on North Korean and Chinese infiltration and guerrilla warfare are unit combat records and periodic intelligence reports available at the U.S. National Archives and in government-contracted technical studies conducted by Johns Hopkins University’s Operations Research Office. For North Korean special operations, Joseph Bermudez’s North Korean Special Forces (1998) is indispensable. 2
