SEOUL: North Korea invited visiting Chinese delegates and Russian artistes to a paramilitary parade featuring rocket launchers pulled by trucks and tractors, state media said, in leader Kim Jong-un’s latest effort to display his ties with Moscow and Beijing in the face of deepening confrontations with Washington.
The event in the capital, Pyongyang, which began on Friday night to celebrate North Korea’s 75th founding anniversary that fell on Saturday, came amid expectations that Kim will travel to Russia soon for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin that could focus on North Korean arm sales to refill reserves drained by the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine.
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