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NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong Un presided over a massive civilian parade yesterday, featuring floats bearing patriotic slogans and marchers with flags and pompoms to celebrate completion of the Workers’ Party of Korea congress.
Citizens have been practising their roles in the compulsory set-piece parade for weeks.
The four-day congress of more than 3,400 delegates endorsed his nuclear and economic policies, promoted his favoured officials and crowned him as party chair.
KEVAN NELSON reports back from a delegation to the epic celebrations for the anniversary of Vietnam’s 1945 revolution, where British communists found a thriving, prosperous socialist country, brimming with ambition and well-earned national pride
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
