North Korea praised the 60th commemoration of the Korean War ceasefire on Saturday (July 27) with a monstrous military parade trumpeting the progressive virtuoso of three eras of pioneers that gave it "Triumph in the Great Fatherland Liberation War." Leader Kim Jong-un was joined by Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao on the platform sitting above Pyongyang's primary Kim Il Sung square to examine a huge throng of warriors in goosestep and a showcase of weapons including its mid-range rockets.
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rk traded words with Li through a mediator yet did not make comments at the parade, which had all the earmarks of being one of the biggest ever put on by the North. In a discourse, Choe Ryong-hae, Kim's principle military associate and the boss political agent of the North's 1.2-million-in number armed force, said the hermitic state considers peace to be a top national need and its military was gone for protecting from outside attack. Kim and Li, with the North's top military authorities and the energetic pioneer's uncle Jang Song-thaek, seen as the second most effective man, looked as the nation's rocket munititions stockpile paraded past, including the recently created mid-range Musudan.
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Chinese and North Korean ties seemed frayed after Pyongyang directed rocket and atomic tests in the previous year that prompted harder U.N. authorizes likewise supported by Beijing. Contender planes and extensive military helicopters flew over the square pressed with a huge number of officers, North Korean and outside veterans of the Korean War and representatives at the parade under cloudless skies and in sweltering summer heat. Several thousands joined in a non military personnel parade which Kim viewed over, before he and Li visited the gallery waving to uncontrollably applauding participants.
