Kim Jong Un: North Korea Prepared For Any Threat From U.S

By R. Siva Kumar - 11 Oct '15 12:11PM
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North Korea is ready to confront any threat from the U.S., said leader Kim Jong Un Saturday according to U.S. News.

He was addressing a large military parade in Pyongyang while it was celebrating 70 years since the ruling party formation.

The parade had thousands of troops contributing, which found that the secretive communist state was showing its latest military hardware right from truck mounted missiles to drones. It showed the world that the Kim dynasty was in control of the North with a "combat-ready military".

During the parade planes were flying in the skies in the Kim Il Sung Square at Pyongyang, as per ABC News.

However there were some worrying lineups of missiles in the parade, according to Jin Moo Kim, a Korea Institute for Defense Analysis expert. He pointed out that it included "a new rocket launcher, as well as the fearsome KN-08 missile, a ballistic missile that's estimated to hit targets up to 6,200 miles away (10,000 kilometers)" according to HNGN.

Many critics looked at the parade as just a propaganda machine to popularize Kim's stature, the military's and the party's.

Walking on the red carpet, Kim was dressed in black, before he saluted the honor guard, according to Fox News.

Their close ally, China, had also sent a top communist official, Liu Yunshan.

"Our revolutionary force is ready to respond to any kind of war the American imperialists want," Kim said. He got a lot of delighted responses from the huge crowd.

"Through the line of Songun (military-first) politics, our Korean People's Army has become the strongest revolutionary force and our country has become an impenetrable fortress and a global military power," he added.

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