PYONGYANG – North Korea staged a large military parade in celebration of the 105th anniversary of the birth of its founding president Kim Il Sung on Saturday in Pyongyang.

The country’s current leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the parade at Kim Il Sung Square, which involved thousands of military personnel from the country’s armed forces and showed off the DPRK’s conventional and asymmetric military capabilities.

As with the unveiling of Ryomyong Street on Thursday, journalists in the capital were instructed to rise early and went through enhanced security checks at the People’s Culture Palace. The press arrived at Kim Il