It was founded and established by taking advantage of the internal tensions caused by the Blue House raid and the abduction of the USS Pueblo in 1968.
At that time, each social group in North Korea adopted a resolution and delivered it to Kim Il Sung, shouting the slogan, "Let's become a bodyguard and a union in carrying out the orders of the party and Kim Il-sung."
[2] The Red Youth Guard is organized into a company or battalion level by school unit, and it is known that the total number of cadets is about 1 million students.
[5] Command and control may have been in the hands of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea in the past, but has since passed to the WPK Political-Military Affairs Department.
During wartime, they are placed under the command and control of the Ministry of Defense, and when mobilizing for training, they are transferred to the Socialist Patriotic Youth League and the Education Committee under the Cabinet.