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9th Division (North Korea)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ4646539 ↗
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The 9th Infantry Division (Korean: 조선인민군 륙군 제9사단) was a military formation of the Korean People's Army during the 20th Century.

It was part of the North Korean advance from Seoul to Taejon.

They fought in the Battle of Pusan Perimeter.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 41-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Division, North and Korea.
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This entry incorporates text from “9th Division (North Korea)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.