To complicate the work of foreign spy agencies, the North Korean regime waited until the middle of the night on Friday evening to celebrate in a gigantic military parade the 75th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers’ Party. The state channel only airs these patriotic ceremonies on Saturday evening for the rest of the population and analysts.
Before dawn, hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of Pyongyang, unmasked, had gathered in the large Kim Il-sung square in the center of the capital to cheer their leader Kim Jong-un, with cries of “Man-Sei”. ! (Longue Vie) and applaud their army which presented a new generation of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
The young dictator had not orchestrated since the end of 2018 this kind of great show of force in order not to completely scuttle his negotiations with the United States. Still not wanting to hold up Donald Trump, who has so far shown a lot of tolerance towards his regime, the young dictator held, from the rostrum, a rather ” measured ” speech where he said that his country would continue. the development of its military arsenal to protect itself from any foreign interference but avoided directly calling out to the American “ enemy ”.
” We will continue to strengthen war deterrence, fair means of self-defense, in order to contain and control all dangerous attempts and acts of intimidation by hostile forces ,” Kim Jong-un hammered in front of a crowd, sometimes crying. of emotion.
Strong symbolism
” If his speech was rather content, the symbolism of the military parade was much stronger, ” immediately noticed, on Twitter, Duyeon Kim, an analyst from the Center for New American Security (CNAS). The experts were particularly impressed by the presentation of a gigantic ICBM, mounted on an 11-axle transport vehicle. “ It’s a much bigger missile than what we have known so far in North Korean systems. It is the largest known ICBM on the planet ”, explained, in a note, Vann H. Van Diepen and Michael Elleman of the think tank“ 38 North ”.
” It could potentially carry a load of 2,000 to 3,500 kg to any site in the United States, ” write analysts who believe that the engineers of the plan could work on techniques of ” mirvage ” MIRV (Multiple Independently targeted Reentry Vehicle).
In this configuration, a missile can deploy several nuclear warheads which each follow an independent trajectory when they return to the atmosphere. A technology which, if it were to be mastered by North Korea, would be very worrying for the United States and its neighbors, whose missile defense systems are still struggling to intercept several simultaneous attacks.
Reinforced isolation
In his 25-minute speech, Kim Jong-un repeatedly thanked his soldiers for helping the country overcome several crises recently, including severe flooding and the coronavirus crisis. Pyongyang continues to affirm that the Covid-19 epidemic has not claimed any victims on its territory, whose borders it has strictly closed with China, its major trading partner, as of January.
Sometimes appearing on the verge of tears in his speech, the dictator, dressed in a large light gray Western suit, apologized to his people for the difficulties this isolation has caused on their daily lives. “ Our people have given me a trust as high as the sky and as deep as the sea, but I have not always succeeded in being worthy of it. I am very sorry for that, ”he added before promising to“ fight ”with even more energy for his homeland.
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