North Korea celebrated the anniversary of the founding of its first military on Monday with a massive military parade featuring “cutting-edge military hardware” and a speech by communist dictator Kim Jong-un in which he warned his soldiers to be “fully prepared” for nuclear war.
Kim’s call for using the country’s illegal nuclear weapons program to “decisively accomplish” any “unexpected second mission” against the enemies of communism follows weeks of rhetorical escalations out of Pyongyang, including sister Kim Yo-jong threatening South Korea with a nuclear strike and the debut of what North Korea called the “Hwasongpho-17,” allegedly a new model of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
The communist Korean People’s Revolutionary Army (KPRA), founded by Kim’s grandfather and “eternal president” Kim Il-sung, turned 90 years old on Monday…