Northern Korea's Kim Flaunts New ICBM that we can achieve

Copyright © HT Digital Streams Limit all rights reserved. Dasl Yoon, The Wall Street Journal 3 min Read 11 Oct 2025, 06:04 PM In a photo released by North Korea, the country’s leader Kim Jong Un to a crowd believed during a military parade in Pyongyang. Photo: KCNA/Reuters Summary The leader of the country challenged the West with an onapologetic military parade, including the unveiling of the ‘Hwasong-20′ long-distance turmoil, with guests from China and Russia. North Korean leader Seoul-Kim Young Un nuclear weapons and mighty friends indicated that he was rising against Washington on Friday night with an extensive military parade that could strike the progress in an arsenal that can strike the US to stage his place on the global leader Xi Jinping’s parade or military firepower in Beijing. Intercontinental ballistic missile Friday at Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung Square on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the ruling workers’ party. The ICBM was called the “Hwasong-20”. Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang, the country’s no. 2 official, and Russia’s ruling party chief and former president, Dmitri Medeev, was one of the dignitaries to join Kim at the event and reunited a loose anti-Western nations as nations. Top officials from Vietnam and Laos also attended. “Our army must continue to grow into an invincible entity that destroys all threats that approach our series of self -defense,” Kim said in a speech, according to a Saturday report from the state media. Kim predicted confidence in his nuclear program, with allies helping him bypass international sanctions. In the midst of efforts to be recognized as a regional power, Kim has not sat down with the US president since 2019 for talks. President Trump, who met the North Korean leader three times during his first term, expressed interest in another event. But Kim, the 41-year-old dictator, said last month he would only sit down with Trump if the US dropped its policy to try to give up North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons. An opportunity for a meeting may come soon, with Trump meeting Xi in South Korea at the end of October. Trump threatened to cancel the planned exchange with XI on Friday, after the tensions between the two countries increased. Kim and Trump have previously met in the Korean demilitarized zone, the strong reinforced border area that separates North and South Korea. A striking Friday night on a rainy Friday night was the public debut of the Hwasong-20 ICBM, a weapon called Kim for the first time shortly before his trip to Beijing in September. The missile appears at the parade. North Korea first launched an ICBM-who baptized the “Hwasong-14” in 2017. In 2017, although he is still in development, the rocket can give a more powerful deterrent and larger leverage in any negotiations, with the US continent in reach and a solid fuel motin that allows to deploy faster and to expose it harder. The parade has included long weapons of weapons that Pyongyang has tested over the past few years, including offensive drones, rocket launchers and combat tanks. Thousands of soldiers marched in the parade through the city center of Pyongyang, a relatively small contingent that represents the approximately 1.2 million troops of one of the world’s largest standing armies. The Russian delegation of the parade has helped the acting governor of Koursk, the Russian region where North Korean troops helped cast out the Ukrainian forces. The march also contains troops goose walking through the square led by a North Korean commander who fought in Russia. North Korea provided troops, artillery sculptures and missiles for Russia’s war against Ukraine. The accuracy of the North Korean-made missiles was improved after lessons learned from the battlefield, the Ukrainian intelligence officials said. Pyongyang unveiled a variety of upgraded weapons last week on a defense outage, including a short distance ballistic rocket with a hypersonic sliding vehicle. At the Expo, Kim threatened to take military measures to respond to a growing US presence on the Korean Peninsula, and accused Washington of a weapons build -up aimed at launching preliminary strikes. The US Army said at the end of September that it had permanently stationed MQ-9 Reaper drones in South Korea to support supervision and exploration operations. Write to Dasl Yoon at [email protected], catch all the business news, market news, news reports and latest news updates on live currency. Download the Mint News app to get daily market updates. More Topics #News Read Next Story