MiG-21 Fishbed Specifications
Primary Function: Fighter-interceptor
Contractor: Mikoyan-Gurevich
Crew: One
Unit Cost: N/A
Powerplant
One Tumansky R-11F-300 rated at 12,675 lb (w/ afterburner)
Dimensions
Length: 51 ft, 8.5 in (15.76 m)
Wingspan: 23 ft, 5.5 in (7.15 m)
height=" 13 ft, 5.5 in (4.10 m)
Weights
Empty: 12,882 lb (5843 kg)
Maximum Takeoff: 21,605 lb (9800 kg)
Performance
Speed: Mach 2.05 (2175 km/h / 1,353 mph)
Ceiling: 50,000 ft (15,250 m)
Range: 600 nautical miles -- MiG-21bis
Armament
One NR-30 30mm cannon with two K-13A Atoll AAMs, two AA-2C Atoll or rocket packs. 500kg of bombs on ground attack missions.

According to some sources the North Korean Airforce currently operate 160 MiG-21s of various types.
The problems that are serisously plaquing the North Korean fleet is the severe shortages of fuel, it limit the training time for the Korean MiG pilots, if the United States actually have the guts to attack Pyongyang and its regime the MiGs would virtually become useless. What the North Korean government should do right now is reforming the economy and bring in foreign dollar. With the money they make they can scrap their older MiG types and upgrade the MiG-21 fleet, to MiG-21-2000 standard in Isreal, and go to its closest ally China for fuel supply.

The poor economic situation can be reflected by the military, if Kim Jong Il (President of North Korea) realise whats really going on in his country, he should consider reform for both the depress economy and military.
Not only the airforce which will benefit from this but also the beleaguered North Korean Navy. If the North Koreans have more money it can increase the number of MiG-29s or even consider the Su-27/30.

It can't buy new migs and suchois even with money. North Korea is in so called evil axis. And Russia can't sell them fighters and other weapons as easy as that.

Whether Russia sell weapons to North Korea its not up to the world to decide, its the Russians who make the profits and North Korea which boosting its strength.

North Korea is selling weapons to Vietnam for rice, so I think in the future North Korea would probably become so desparate it will havd over the MiG-29s to the Vietnamese.

I think they arent just getting rice traded for weapons to give to society, I think they are making a rice Nuke so UN wepon inspectors wont get suspicious

yeah, whatever happend to the missile crisis we had with north korea. i bet they're building one right now made outta rice. lol.

The mig-21 is an OK aircraft. any modern plane to date could defeat it in a dogfight. it has so many flaws it's unreal.