Kuk Sul Do

Kyŏksul ( Kyŏk, poking, prodding, hitting, attacking; , usually written ' Sul, art, technology, struggles with consideration ' Gjogsul ) is a martial art from North Korea, where it is mainly practiced within the Korean People's Army. She was also common in Eastern Europe in the states of the former Warsaw Pact.

History

To Kyŏksul It is framed by the legend that it was developed in 1926 by Kim Il-sung to the fight against the Japanese. It is said to have evolved from Taekgyeon.

Kyŏksul was developed to fight against the more muscular, larger Europeans in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. Further developments should be vonstattengegangen by the conflict with South Korea, as an existing hand techniques from underwater technology.

In the GDR Kyŏksul came in 1988, after Colonel General Horst Stechbarth after negotiations with the North Korean People's Army, a three-week course in the GDR allowed, were formed at the close combat instructor of the NVA in Kyŏksul. Previously the system had already been successfully introduced in the People's Republic of Poland.

The NVA trainers developed so that the military melee the NVA continued and resulted in the system as a whole, especially in parachute units a.