The event yesterday featured Pyongyang’s ‘paramilitary forces’ rather than soldiers.
Kim Il Sung Square ‘was full of excitement and joy’ during the anniversary parade yesterday.
Images in state media showed uniformed paramilitary brigades, including some riding tractors or in large red trucks, as Kim, flanked by his young daughter, looked on smiling and clapping. Kim met with the visiting Chinese delegation led by Liu Guozhong, vice-premier of the State Council, the second such visit by top officials from Beijing in six weeks, as Pyongyang shows signs of easing its strict Covid-era border controls.
Moscow expanded its official presence in North Korea shortly before the parade, with its Pyongyang embassy saying this week that it had been allowed to bring in 20 diplomatic and technical staff – the first such rotation of personnel since 2019. The Chinese and Russian visits come as speculation mounts that Kim – who rarely leaves his country and has not travelled since the coronavirus pandemic started – will meet Putin to discuss arms deals.
Growing cooperation between China, Russia and North Korea, coupled with Xi skipping the G20 Summit in India, “give the appearance of a widening fissure in Asia’s geopolitical landscape”, he said.
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