Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI, part eight, Asian users part two

As we've said previously, the MiG-15UTI saw use in many countries. Among them many asiatic ones. The countries covered with this post are:

• North Korea: The North Korean Air Force (officially named "Korean People's Army Air and Anti-Air Force) recieved some MiG-15UTIs shortly after the Korean cease-fire in 1953. Due to the isolationist profile of the country, the type has been in active service serving as their main trainer aircraft since then. Nowadays most of KPAAAF's UTIs are based at Pukch'ang airport, located at the Northwest of the country, close to the city of Kaechon. The ones there are part of the 60th Air Fighter Wing, which is part of the 1st Air Combat Division.
  There are some others serving at Orang, located at the Northeastern part of the country, close to the Russian border which are part of the 41st Air Regiment, which is part of the 8th Training Division. Interestingly enough, they served alongside old MiG-15bis which, supposedly are used as advanced trainers. Some of them are known to be based at Riwon North Airfield too. 
• Sri Lanka: During the insurgency that took the communists into power in 1971, the Bandaranaike government turned to Soviet assistance for help. They received a small number of MiG-17Fs and a single MiG-15UTI trainer. They remained in active service until the early 1980s when they were placed into long-term storage.
• North Vietnam: The MiG-15UTI was supplied by the USSR to the Vietnam's People Air Force in the mid 1960s. They served as their main trainer and also served as the trainer for most of North Vietnamese air regiments like 921st 'Sao Dao' Fighter Regiment, the 923rd Fighter Regiment, the 925th Fighter Regiment and the 910th 'Julius Fucik' Training Regiment. The ones assigned to the 921st FR, were kept busy by flying training sorties in parallel with MiG-17 and MiG-21 combat operations in 1966.
  As the ones assigned to the 923rd had no shelters to keep them from being bombarded, in 1967 they had to be painted and storaged under trees to camouflage them. It's known also that the People's Republic of China supplied four Shenyang FT-2 (the export version of the Shenyang JJ-2 trainer, which was itself a copy of the MiG-15UTI,  built in China) in February 1969 and assigned to the 925th FR which was equipped mainly with the MiG-19. Those received most of the technical attention as they were hard to maintain airworthy so the FT-2 was heavily tasked by pilots needing to build up their flying hours.

Sources:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_People%27s_Army_Air_and_Anti-Air_Force

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Sri_Lanka_Air_Force

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_People%27s_Air_Force

4. Osprey Publishing- Aircraft of the Aces 130 - MiG-17-19 Aces of the Vietnam War