This September 8, 2017 picture released from North Koreas official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on September 9, 2017 shows members of North Korean womens union holding a dance party at the plaza of the Monument to Party Founding in Pyongyang to celebrate the 69th anniversary of North Koreas national day. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIS KNS AND AFP PHOTO / STR / - South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSTHIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP. /
SEOUL: North Korea’s state media marked the nation’s founding anniversary with calls for a nuclear arms build-up, in defiance of mounting international sanctions.
South Korea’s military said it was keeping close tabs on the North amid speculation it could stage a missile launch or another nuclear test to mark the 1948 establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
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