North Korea holds giant military parade amid missile show-off speculations: Seoul

rth Korea held a giant military pare early on October 10 to mark 75th founding anniversary of ruling Worker’s Party, according to South Korean military. rth Korea h been preparing for months to celebrate anniversary of ruling party amid speculations by experts around a possible unveiling of newly developed, powerful missiles.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that re were signs of a military pare involving large crowd and equipment at Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung Square. A South Korean professor h earlier said that rth Korean leer Kim Jong Un would like to mobilise public amid ecomic crisis and send a strong mess to entire world amid a delock in nuclear diplomacy.

Recent satellite ims showed rehearsal on a large scale for major military pare, as hundreds of vehicles and thousands of troops gared at Mirim Pare Training Ground in Pyongyang suburbs. 38 rth, a program of Stimson Center dedicated to analysing events in and around rth Korea, released satellite imry which showed formation of troops and vehicles in training ground. 

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Military pare rehearsal

Mirim facility has regularly been used as a rehearsal location for pares but rehearsals, according to 38 rth, started slightly later when compared to previous years, possibly because of COVID-19 measures and wear constraints. satellite imry also suggested presence of a vehicle likely carrying intercontinental ballistic missile at pare training ground. analysts from 38 rth said that shape and size of vehicle suggests a transporter-erector-launcher (TEL) for a large missile. 

“While imry resolution is insufficient to determine exactly what vehicle is, relative size and shape suggests that it may be a transporter-erector-launcher (TEL) for a large missile,” group said in its report.

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(With AP inputs)