North Korean military show of force in defense exhibition

Under the watchful eye of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, his sister and close advisor Kim Yo Jong, soldiers displayed martial arts at a defense exhibition. With all smiles, he looked at a man lying on broken bottles with a concrete block placed on his chest before being broken with a sledgehammer, according to pictures broadcast by KCTV on Tuesday. “These soldiers, who were embraced and brought up in our party, demonstrated the strength, courage and morale of the Korean People’s Army to the whole world.Comment on Ri Chun-hee, the system’s favorite presenter, Ri Chun-Hee. Ri Chun Hee did not fail to point out that the participants’ strength was “Given by our dear leader Kim Jong Un».

This sequence is part of the resistance display organized by the North Korean military during this defense exhibition, which was an opportunity to showcase the weapons possessed by this nuclear-powered country, in particular the recently revealed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). General during a military parade. Other soldiers – some in uniform, some without shirts – smashed several layers of concrete bricks with their fists or their heads. Others were hit with hammers in the arm or hand, and a brick was broken in the chest of a soldier lying on a bed of nails. The leader watched the demonstrations with applause and a smile, surrounded by officers and his sister Kim Jong Un, who was appointed at the end of September to the country’s highest executive body.

Korea has a long tradition of martial arts, and it is noted that it is the birthplace of Taekwondo, the art of self-control. It was developed after Korea was occupied by Japan by a South Korean general who later fell out with dictator Park Chung-hee, who was backed by the South Korean military. He then traveled regularly to Pyongyang, where he died in 2002. When the exhibition opened on Tuesday, the North Korean leader said the United States is “root causeInstability on the Korean Peninsula. It was organized on the occasion of the anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party in Pyongyang.