Where are the nukes? See what North Korea displayed at its military parade
By Eric Talmadge, The Associated Press
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Heavy weaponry rolls past during a military parade in North Korea. (Kin Cheung/AP)
Soldiers march past during a parade for the 70th anniversary of North Korea's founding day in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sept. 9, 2018. (Ng Han Guan/AP)
People stand next to a television with reporting of a parade marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of North Korea. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)
North Korea staged a major military parade, huge rallies and is to revive its iconic mass games to mark its 70th anniversary as a nation. (Kin Cheung/AP)
Korean People's Army soldiers stand atop armored vehicles during a military parade on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on Sept. 9, 2018. (Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images)
North Korean soldiers march during a parade for the 70th anniversary of North Korea's founding day in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Sept. 9, 2018. (Kin Cheung/AP)
Soldiers sit on a rocket launcher vehicle during a major North Korean military parade. (Ng Han Guan/AP)
Airplanes forming the number 70 fly in formation and fire flares during a parade for the 70th anniversary of North Korea's founding day in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Sept. 9, 2018. (Ng Han Guan/AP)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, raises hands with China's third-highest ranking official, Li Zhanshu, during a North Korean military parade. (Kin Cheung/AP)
North Korea staged a major military parade on Sept. 9, 2018. (Kin Cheung/AP)
Tanks roll past during a parade for the 70th anniversary of North Korea's founding day. (Ng Han Guan/AP)
North Korea staged a major military parade, huge rallies and is to revive its iconic mass games to mark its 70th anniversary as a nation. (Ng Han Guan/AP)
PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea held a major military parade and revived its iconic mass games to celebrate its 70th anniversary. But in keeping with leader Kim Jong Un’s new policies, the emphasis was firmly on building up the economy, not on nuclear weapons.
The North rolled out some of its latest tanks and marched its best-trained goose-stepping units in Sunday's parade but held back its most advanced missiles and devoted nearly half of the event to civilian efforts to build the domestic economy.
It also brought the mass games back after a five-year hiatus. The games are a grand spectacle that features nearly 20,000 people flipping placards in unison to create huge mosaics as thousands more perform gymnastics or dance in formation on the competition area of Pyongyang’s 150,000-seat May Day Stadium.
The GIDE X events aim to tackle technical and systems integration issues that can keep operators from leveraging command-and-control capability upgrades.
