South Korean military says Weekly newspaper It is carefully tracking a unique form of military parade held by North Korea, because nearly a decade after the supreme leader took office, the relationship between the two rival neighbors is still changing. Kim Jong Un In power.
“Our military is closely following North Korea’s military parade,” a spokesperson for the South Korean Ministry of Defense (officially known as the Republic of Korea) told Weekly newspaper“We are conducting precise analysis under the cooperation of South Korea and the United States.”
North Korea is no stranger to elaborate displays of power, but the midnight military parade held on Thursday to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was eye-catching because it exchanged advanced missiles and combat capabilities in exchange for more innocence. An eye-catching paramilitary and public safety asset.
Kim watched from above the parade through the central square named after his grandfather Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang. The parade included cavalry units on horseback, a team of personnel accompanied by military search dogs, and dozens of health workers wearing matching orange protective clothing and gas masks.
According to the official North Korean Central News Agency, the rocket is not towed by a traditional military truck, but by a “tractor towing a cannon, and in an emergency, it uses fire fighting power to strike the invaders and their vassals.”
Although there are reports that Jin did not speak at the event, he “expressed warm thanks to the cheering crowd.”
The news agency praised the supreme leader with enthusiasm.
All the participants extended their highest respect and deepest gratitude to Kim Jong-un. He is a peerless hero who has fully demonstrated the new era of the country’s comprehensive prosperity and the era of national supremacy with enthusiasm of love and self-sacrifice. Contribute to the country and the people,” the report said.
Korea Central News Agency
With Kim Jong Un’s rule reaching the 10-year mark later this year, South Korean President Moon Jae-in will end his second and final term early next year.And the President of the United States Joe Biden Still in his first year and already beset by thorny domestic issues and more pressing foreign policy issues in the rest of the world, there are signs that the Korean peninsula is facing uncertainty in the coming months.
The number of North Korea-South Korea summits hosted by Moon Jae-in hit a record high. All these summits were held in 2018, the same year as Biden’s predecessor. Donald Trump, Became the first incumbent American leader to meet with a North Korean ruler. However, the momentum of the negotiations eventually stalled, as the follow-up US-North Korea summit in February ended without a coveted denuclearization peace and sanctions relief agreement.
Tensions have gradually recovered in the past two years. Although Kim has not yet resumed nuclear testing or intercontinental ballistic missile launches, he has declared that he can do so. United Nations Security Council restrictions.
Pyongyang resumed military communications with Seoul in July, which marked some positive developments, but last month North Korean officials issued a series of harsh comments on South Korea’s decision to conduct joint exercises with the United States.
The Biden administration has expressed its willingness to engage in diplomacy with North Korea, but also warned that the United States will respond to any provocations.Thursday’s parade marked the first such parade since Biden took office in January, just a few weeks after a grand parade celebrating the Eighth Party was held in Pyongyang Congress The Workers’ Party of Korea.
Since then, Kim has admitted in public speeches that his country is in deep crisis, and even used the term “difficult march,” which is almost exclusively used in history to refer to a fatal under his father’s rule. Of famine and economic mismanagement. Administration in the mid-1990s.
Although North Korea is still one of only five countries on the planet that has not reported a single case of COVID-19, it still maintains strict lockdown and isolation measures. It was one of the first countries in the world to close its borders in response to the coronavirus that spread in neighboring China early last year. It is also unknown whether North Korea has received any foreign aid, including vaccines.
On Thursday, in order to resolve the domestic situation in North Korea, Kim Jong Il ceded the podium to the Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Lee Il-hwan, who stated that North Korea’s “nation and people will use united and open forces to tide over the current difficulties.” In the future, socialist construction will also usher in a new climax and a new turning point. “
Lee advocated strictly abiding by North Korea’s main idea of self-reliance even when facing challenges.
“In any case, the government of the Republic will resolutely defend the dignity and fundamental interests of the people of our country in accordance with the principles of self-reliance and self-development, and solve all problems in its own way,” Li said.
Through this doctrine, he believes that North Korea will expand its armed forces, modernize the entire defense industry, “and continue to promote the struggle to implement the party’s policy of arming the whole people and building a fortress by all people. Continuously improve the country’s defense capabilities.”
“Neither challenges nor difficulties can stop our country and people from advancing bravely towards a new victory in the revolution under the leadership of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un,” Li said.
Korea Central News Agency
