standing army

Today the country has its smallest standing army since the Napoleonic wars.

Israel has a relatively small standing army and relies on its reservists during times of war.

Thousands of soldiers marched through downtown Pyongyang in the parade, a relatively small contingent representing the roughly 1.2 million troops of one of the world’s largest standing armies.

While permanent standing armies existed since World War I, military spending was now central to both industrial strength and economic prosperity.

It appears that the country's leader Kim Jong Un has directed much of his limited resources into missiles and nuclear weapons rather than his standing army.