New Weapons and Dictator Tears: a Surreal North Korean Celebration
22.Feb.2021 9:00 AM . 4 min read
Despite the twin crises of a pandemic and a recession rocking the world, North Korea has insisted that it remains the Communist wonderland that it has been for decades. It cites zero coronavirus cases and periodically releases pictures of smiling citizens. On October 10, 2020, all eyes were on the hermit kingdom for clues on how it had fared as the rest of the world came to a halt. The results were surprising and mixed.
October 10th, or Party Foundation Day, marks the anniversary of the founding of the Korean Workers’ Party, one of the most important dates on the North Korean calendar. In the past, the Party has used key anniversaries to showcase special events: the Monument to Party Founding was unveiled in 1995, on the party’s 50th anniversary, and two large plants were revealed in 2015, on its 70th anniversary. In 2020, the Party turned 75.
When Former US President Donald Trump had signed the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief bill into law in December last year, he also set into motion a 180-day countdown for the authorities to reveal all they know about UFOs, or perhaps aliens.
As part of this, the Director of National Intelligence, along with the Secretary of Defense have less than six months to provide an unclassified report about unidentified aerial phenomena to the congress and committees of armed services.
The authorities have to reveal the information as part of the section in the Intelligence Authorization Act for 2021, which is a constituent provision of the spending bill.
North Korea shows off submarine-launched missile at parade, state media reports
The display is a show of strength days before Biden is inaugurated as US president, and comes at the end of the ruling Workers’ Party congress
State media reports that the rockets have ‘powerful striking capability’, with phrasing that implies they are capable of reaching at least as far as Japan
Military parade pressures Biden to take North Korea seriously
Posted : 2021-01-15 16:06
By Kang Seung-woo
North Korea used a Thursday evening military parade marking its latest party congress as a fully calibrated warning to the incoming Joe Biden administration in an attempt to keep its focus on its nuclear program and extract concessions from the United States, according to diplomatic experts.
On the occasion of the eighth congress of the ruling Workers Party that ended on Tuesday, the Kim Jong-un regime staged a military parade in Pyongyang, highlighted by the unveiling of a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) that was labeled as the Pukguksong-5, possibly an upgraded version of the Pukguksong-4 that was showcased at another parade in October to mark the party s 75th founding anniversary.
N.Korea Unveils another New Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile Our Bureau 1833
New submarine-launched ballistic missile launched by North Korea on Thursday.
Just three months after showcasing a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), North Korea displayed another one during a military parade held Thursday night.
The parade was held at Kim Il-sung square in capital Pyongyang. The North rolled out SLBMs on transporter erector launchers (TEL) labeled as the Pukguksong-5ㅅ, along with a new short-range ballistic missile and various other kinds of weaponry. The world s most powerful weapon, submarine-launch ballistic missile, entered the square one after another, powerfully demonstrating the might of the revolutionary armed forces, the North s Korean Central Korean News Agency (KCNA) said on Friday.