[EpochTimesSeptember92021](Epoch Times reporter Xu Jian comprehensive report) Slenderer Kim Jong-un, soldiers wearing gas masks, biochemical protective suits, smaller weapons, the military parade for the 73rd anniversary of the founding of North Korea (See the video here) has attracted international attention.
At around 5 pm local time on Thursday (September 9), North Korean National Television began broadcasting the military parade held at the “Kim Il Sung Square” a few hours ago. Kim Jong-un hosted the event but did not speak. The event opened with a military band, fireworks, and parachutists.
Kim Jong-un appeared on the balcony in a light-colored, well-tailored suit, overlooking the square. He looks thinner than he was a few months ago.
Before the video started, NK News, which specializes in reporting on North Korean news, stated that no missiles or heavy weapons were seen in the parade. A photo of the parade posted on Twitter a few hours later showed that Kim Jong-un inspected the Launong Red Guards and the Social Security Army, the emergency epidemic prevention column responsible for the prevention and control of the epidemic, the Ministry of Health column, the Red Youth Guards, motorcycles and tractors. Mechanized columns composed of teams, etc.
As you can see from the video, the scale of national weapons displayed at this military parade is obviously smaller than before. Only some conventional weapons were exhibited this time, including multiple rocket launchers and tractors carrying anti-tank missiles, but no “ballistic missiles” appeared or mentioned.
“This military parade seems to be mainly for internal audiences, not to send diplomatic messages to Seoul or Washington.” Yang Moo-jin, a professor at Seoul Korea Studies University and a former South Korean government adviser, said that North Korea reviewed a “not too provocative” military department. , Such as the “Workers and Peasants Red Army” similar to the reserve forces.
The North Korean military parade is closely watched by experts from all over the world. Yonhap News Agency quoted a military official as saying that the scale of the military parade was smaller than the one held in January and October last year.
North Korea’s last military parade was held before Biden’s inauguration in January, when it showed the latest developments in North Korea’s “rapid strike against solid fuel missiles.”
In a military parade celebrating the anniversary of the founding of the ruling party in October last year, North Korea displayed the country’s new weapons under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, including the so-called “world’s largest road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile.” It is said that this type of missile, which has not been tested so far, can carry multiple atomic weapons on a single rocket. Kim Jong Un also boasted about the country’s nuclear capabilities in his speech at the time.
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