Traffic in downtown Seoul will be restricted next month during a military parade celebrating the 76th anniversary of the founding of South Korea’s military.
In a series of events marking the 75th Armed Forces Day, South Korea flaunted its military hardware at an air base in the morning and a massive parade in downtown Seoul in the afternoon, the first of its kind in a decade.
Referring to his bilateral summit with U.S. President Joe Biden in April and the signing of the Washington Declaration, Yoon said the alliance "has become a more sophisticated nuclear-based alliance."
All roads entering the Namdaemun and Gyeongbok Palace areas will be closed off, mostly from 2 p.m. It's the first such parade in the downtown area in 10 years, the previous one having taken place in 2013.
The military parade, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Korean military, marks the first such event in a decade. Previously held every five years since 1998, the parade was suspended in 2018 in efforts to improve relations with North Korea.
Multiple AH-64 Apache, twin-engine attack helicopters, fly over Myeong-dong in Jung District, central Seoul, on Monday as to practice for the military parade that will be held on Armed Forces Day on Oct. 1.
Russia’s defense minister and a Chinese Politburo member were North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s guests of honor at a nighttime military parade in Pyongyang on Thursday to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.
Satellite images appear to show North Korea preparing to hold a military parade, according to an analysis by Voice of America (VOA) released on Tuesday.
North Korea has "expanded and reorganized" many of its military units in accordance with new security situations, assigning operational combat missions to them, state media said Monday.
North Korea displayed the largest number of its longest-range intercontinental ballistic missile at a nighttime military parade on Wednesday, as well as mock-ups of a new solid-fuel missile under development, state media photos showed Thursday.
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