North Korea stages paramilitary parade on founding anniversary

North Korea's Kim Jong Un marked the 75th anniversary of the country's founding anniversary on Saturday with a parade of paramilitary groups and diplomatic exchanges in which he vowed to deepen ties with China and Russia. The parade was also attended by a Chinese delegation led by Liu Guozhong, vice-premier of the State Council of China and Russian diplomats were also in attendance.

A paramilitary parade took place with splendour at Kim Il Sung Square in the capital city of Pyongyang. The event featured Pyongyang's "paramilitary forces", rather than soldiers in the regular army, and it did not appear to showcase the country's banned weaponry including intercontinental ballistic missiles.