Russians, Chinese officials attend North Korea anniversary parade

SpaceWar.com reports: “North Korea marked its founding anniversary with a parade attended by leader Kim Jong Un as well as Russian diplomats and a high-ranking Chinese delegation, state media said Saturday, as Pyongyang deepens ties with Moscow and Beijing.

The Friday event featured Pyongyang’s ‘paramilitary forces’, state media said, rather than soldiers in the regular army, and it did not showcase the country’s banned weaponry including intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Images in state media showed uniformed paramilitary brigades, including some riding tractors or in large red trucks.

Kim, flanked by his young daughter, looked on smiling and clapping.

Kim Il Sung Square ‘was full of excitement and joy of the spectators significantly celebrating the birthday of their great powerful country’, the official Korean Central News Agency reported…”

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