North Korea held mass rallies in Pyongyang where people shouted slogans promising a “war of revenge” to destroy the United States to mark the 73rd anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War, state media said Monday.
About 120,000 working people and students took part in rallies across the capital on Sunday, state news agency KCNA said.
Photos released by state media showed the stadium packed with people holding placards reading “The entire US mainland is in our firing range” and “The imperialist US is a destroyer of peace”.
Sunday’s anniversary came amid fears that Pyongyang could soon conduct another launch of its first military spy satellite, boosting surveillance of US military activities after its first attempt failed on May 31.
North Korea now has “the most powerful absolute weapon to punish US imperialists” and “the avengers on this earth are burning with an indomitable will to avenge the enemy,” KCNA said.
Nuclear-armed North Korea has been testing various weapons, including its largest intercontinental ballistic missile, raising tensions with the South and the South’s main ally, the United States.
In a separate Foreign Ministry report, North Korea said the US was “making desperate efforts to start a nuclear war” and accused Washington of sending strategic assets to the region.
North and South Korea remain technically at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice, not a treaty.
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