Leader Kim Jong-un receives salutes from honorary guards before inspecting thousands of soldiers taking allotment in the displayNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un declared on Saturday that his country was ready to stand up to any threat posed by the United States,as he spoke at a lavish military parade to stamp the 70th anniversary of the North’s ruling party and trumpet his third-generation leadership.[br]The parade, which featured thousands of goose-stepping soldiers and military hardware including missiles and drones mounted on trucks, or kicked off what is expected to be one of the North’s biggest celebrations ever an attention-getting event that is the government’s way of showing the world and its own people that the Kim dynasty is firmly in control and its military a power to be reckoned with.
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Source: theguardian.com