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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has presided over a major military parade featuring the nation\u2019s latest intercontinental ballistic missile as international dignitaries looked on, state media KCNA reported.<\/p>\n
The Friday night parade commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea\u2019s founding, following Thursday\u2019s celebrations. Among the foreign guests in Pyongyang were Chinese Premier Li Qiang, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Vietnam\u2019s Communist Party leader To Lam.<\/p>\n
During the parade, North Korea showcased its advanced Hwasong-20 intercontinental ballistic missile, which KCNA characterised as the nation\u2019s \u201cstrongest nuclear strategic weapon system\u201d.<\/p>\n
While the Hwasong ICBM series provides North Korea with the theoretical capability to strike anywhere in the United States, experts remain uncertain about its guidance precision and whether its warhead could survive atmospheric re-entry.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Hwasong-20 represents, for the moment, the apotheosis of North Korea\u2019s ambitions for long-range nuclear delivery capabilities. We should expect to see the system tested before the end of this year,\u201d said Ankit Panda of the US-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe system is likely designed for the delivery of multiple warheads \u2026 Multiple warheads will increase stresses on existing US missile defence systems and augment what Kim sees as necessary to achieve meaningful deterrence effects against Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n
In his address during the parade, Kim offered \u201cwarm encouragement\u201d to North Korean troops serving abroad, notably in Russia\u2019s Ukraine war, noting their heroism would extend beyond national defence to \u201coutposts of socialist construction,\u201d according to KCNA.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur army should continue to grow into an invincible entity that destroys all threats,\u201d Kim declared.<\/p>\n
Kim also met with Medvedev on Friday, who remarked that North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia in Ukraine demonstrated the trust between their nations. Kim expressed his desire to strengthen cooperation with Russia and engage in diverse exchanges to achieve mutual goals, KCNA reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published On 11 Oct 202511 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share North Korean…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6109,26097,43,44,20063,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-204889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-gallery","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-north-korea","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}