By Jason Apuzzo. Images often capture events more descriptively than words. The UK Guardian’s Dan Chung has done some great video reporting from Asia in recent years, and we wanted to show you some fresh video footage from him of a massive North Korean military parade – supposedly the nation’s largest ever – that was recently held in order to ‘introduce’ Kim Jong-il’s heir apparent , Kim Jong-un. This was Kim Jong-un’s most public appearance since being named as North Korea’s next leader.
Among the proclamations made at this parade was the following:
Ri Yong Ho, chief of the general staff of the North Korean army, said at the event: “If the US imperialists and their followers infringe on our sovereignty and dignity even slightly, we will blow up the stronghold of their aggression with a merciless and righteous retaliatory strike by mobilising all physical means, including self-defensive nuclear deterrent force, and achieve the historic task of unification.”
Take a look at the video above. Two words come to mind: farcical … and chilling.
Posted on October 13th,2010 at 11:38am.
I love a parade – especially with formidably powerful goose stepping girls and cute tanks.
There are, actually, some North Korean cuties in those ranks.
I thought the opening to the Chinese sponsored Olympics was way more scary in that they were all civilians doing the exact same thing at the exact same time. We could elmiminate that entire country in a few minutes.
Eliminating the entire country seems like a somewhat drastic response, don’t you think? I would prefer cultivating democratic forces from within, as that regime is a lot more fragile than people realize.