Kim Jong-un
flexes his muscles and challenges Covid and America at the same time, three weeks before the US presidential elections.
The great military parade in Pyongyang for the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party was an opportunity to exhibit the "new strategic weapons" announced by the North Korean leader months ago and reaffirm a sort of immunity of the country to the coronavirus pandemic. to verify.
On an 11-axle transporter, a gigantic ICBM missile appeared that one of the most famous American North Korean business analysts, Ankit Panda, called "the largest liquid-fueled mobile missile ever seen".
And that Harry Kazianis, of the American conservative think tank Center for the National Interest, judged "much larger and clearly more powerful than anything else in North Korea's arsenal."
Thousands of masked soldiers paraded into the large Kim Il-sung square before dawn as a smiling Kim, in a gray western-cut suit, greeted, received flowers from the children and joked with the generals at his side.
"Not a single person" in North Korea has contracted the virus, underlined the North Korean leader who in January closed the borders to prevent the circulation of the infection and wished to congratulate "all those in the world who are struggling. against the evils of the evil virus ".
No explicit reference to Trump but the parade, the first in two years, three weeks before the US presidential elections and to which no foreign guests or journalists have been admitted, together with the exhibition of the new super missiles sounds like a show of strength.