North Korea 70th Anniversary Military Parade 2018 (FULL)

NORTH Korea has staged a huge military parade WITHOUT ballistic missiles - as the regime marks its 70th anniversary today. Kim Jong-un seemingly decided to tone down the display after his professed commitment to denuclearisation following his summit with Donald Trump. Instead nearly half of the parade was devoted to civilian efforts to build the domestic economy, emphasising the leader’s new strategy of putting economic development front and centre. Kim attended the morning parade but did not address the assembled crowd, which included the head of the Chinese parliament and high-level delegations from countries that have friendly ties with the North. Senior statesman Kim Yong Nam, the head of North Korea’s parliament, set the relatively softer tone for the event with an opening speech that emphasised the economic goals of the regime, not its nuclear might. After a truncated parade featuring tanks, fewer than the usual number of missiles and lots of goose-stepping uni