The U.S. government's unclassified assessments of North Korea's military — the DoD's 2012–2017 Reports to Congress, the DIA's standalone volume, and the recurring missile and Congressional Research Service reports.
North Korea comes closest to the China Military Power Report format — the Department of Defense produced a report to Congress with almost the same title, Military and Security Developments Involving the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. But it was short-lived: mandated by the FY2012 defense authorization, only four editions were ever published, and the requirement lapsed after 2017. I’ve archived that complete run here, along with the DIA’s later standalone volume, and linked the reports that are still being updated.
The direct DPRK counterpart to the China report. Four editions exist — 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2017 — with no edition in 2014 or 2016, and none after 2017.
After the DoD series ended, the Defense Intelligence Agency published a single, in-depth baseline volume — part of the same “Military Power” line as its Russia, China, and Iran editions.
Updated over time, so linked at their official sources (they open in a new tab).
Missile forces
Congressional Research Service — continuously updated; the landing pages serve the current edition:
A note on the sources: the DoD 2012–2017 set and the DIA 2021 volume are fixed historical documents, archived here in full. The missile and CRS reports change over time and stay linked to their official publishers.
