Seoul, South Korea -- South Korea on Tuesday staged its first military parade in a decade, showcasing its advanced arsenal
Seoul, South Korea — South Korea on Tuesday staged its first military parade in a decade, showcasing its advanced arsenal in the face of plummeting ties with nuclear-armed North Korea.
On a rain-soaked afternoon, around 6,700 troops marched through central Seoul, cheered by umbrella-bearing crowds who waved South Korean flags. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol watched the parade from a platform, applauding troops as they marched past. During an Armed Forces Day ceremony earlier at an air base south of Seoul, Yoon hailed the expansion of US-South Korea defence ties.
The parade in Seoul “is a not-so-subtle and visually provocative gesture on the part of the South Korean government of telling Kim Jong Un that Seoul will not be backing down or looking for ways to reconcile”, LMI Consulting’s Soo Kim, a former CIA analyst, told AFP.
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