North Korea rolled out a new long-range missile dubbed its “most powerful” ever for the country’s first military parade in over two years, a high-profile showcase of military might featuring several potent weapon systems. 

But this time, it wasn’t necessarily the weapons that stole the show.

The DPRK’s celebrations for the 80th founding anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea on Friday offered a subdued look at the military’s latest advances, running relatively short and leaving out a host of in-development systems that have been teased elsewhere.

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