The armed forces define any country's atomic powers and preservance. Nuclear-armed North Korea appears to have held a giant military parade early on Saturday with Pyongyang’s latest and most excellent weapons expected to have been on display in the coronavirus-barricaded country’s capital. The widely anticipated display is part of commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party. Such events typically feature thousands of troops goose-stepping through Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung Square, named for North Korea’s founder, under the gaze of his grandson Kim Jong Un, the third member of the family to rule the country.

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A cavalcade of progressively larger armored vehicles and tanks usually follows, culminating with whatever missiles Pyongyang wants to highlight. They are keenly watched by observers for clues to its weapons development. Seoul’s joint chiefs of staff said in a statement, “Signs of a military parade involving equipment and people on a large scale were detected at Kim Il Sung Square early this morning." South Korean and US intelligence agencies were “closely tracking the event”, they added.

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The ceremony is part of celebrations marking 75 years since the founding of Kim’s ruling party, an anniversary that comes during a challenging year for North Korea as the coronavirus pandemic and recent storms add pressure to the heavily approved country. Pyongyang closed its borders eight months ago to try to protect itself from the virus, which first emerged in neighboring China, and has yet to confirm a single case. Last month, troops from the North shot dead a South Korean fisheries official who had drifted into its waters, apparently as a precaution against the disease, provoking fury in Seoul and a rare apology from Kim.

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