-hundreds of trucks carrying thousands of soldiers lined in Pyongyang at dawn on Sunday, when North Korea celebrates its 70th anniversary with a huge display of was military RZA. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, North Korea’s official name) was proclaimed on September 9, 1948, three years after Moscow and Washington divided the peninsula at the end of the second world war.
This date is one of the most important North Korean political calendar and often a chance to boast of military material. “Anniversaries are important in the DPRK and this is especially,” said Evans Revere, of the Brookings Institution of Washington reflection group. “These celebrations are also a chance for leader display their achievements and national power, to take credit”.
Military parades AP photo, supervised by the leader Kim Jong Un, the third member of his family to lead the country, are crucial for international observers, who scrutinize every detail to keep abreast of the latest developments of the country military. Traditionally, the stop in Pyongyang begins with soldiers marching by the Kim Il Sung square, before the parade of tanks and aircraft, and the program culminates with intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Photo AP but on this occasion can that rockets, are not designated analysts. A too military parade could harm the diplomatic progress made on the peninsula, after the meeting with the American President, Donald Trump, Kim in June in Singapore; and before the Summit scheduled later this month between Kim and the South Korean President, Moon Jae-in, in Pyongyang.
“Slap in the face” AP Photo “if they boast of intercontinental ballistic missiles will be a great challenge and a slap in the face to the United States”, says Andrei Lankov, of Korea Risk Group.Lankov does not expect that the North do so, mostly because that would to the Chinese delegation invited in an uncomfortable position: it would seem to be supporting the weapons programs that Pyongyang is the subject of numerous international sanctions.
Photo AP Beijing is a key diplomatic protector of Pyongyang, as well as your business partner. After years of coldness by missile tests and nuclear relations revived this year, when Kim visited China three times to meet with the 11th President Jinping.Xi will be represented in the celebrations by Li Zhanshu, President of the Parliament and member of the Standing Committee of the political Bureau of the Communist Party, the most powerful body in the country.
AP Photo decision Xi does not personally attend celebrations in Pyongyang, but yea send to a very close figure, can be a way of expressing their support to Pyongyang without directly opposing Trump, at a time when China and the United States are entangled s in a trade war. It could also be a way of saying that Beijing wants Kim to make more efforts to reduce tensions before there is a presidential view.
Photo Archive/AP that visited North Korea last Chinese President Hu Jintao was, in 2005.Aunque diplomatic invitations for the event were sent to the length and breadth of the planet, the only head of State that is expected is to Mauritanian President Mohamed Uld Abdelaziz .
The anniversary celebrations began already overnight Saturday with a concert before thousands of people at the Pyongyang indoor stadium.
File/AP photo on these occasions the musicians and dancers perform in front of a giant screen on which are projected the great successes of the country. In recent years these images included sequences of the launch of ballistic missiles and nuclear-test of Pyongyang, but this year was the economic development of the country, with factories, steel and abundant wheat plants. A few sequences showed the armed forces, but only with conventional equipment.
Photo AP Kim said in April that North Korea had completed the development of nuclear weapons and that the following strategic priority would be the “socialist economic construction”. In this note: North Korea parade military 70 anniversary Kim Jung Un
