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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.
The US-Israeli conflict with Iran has had far-reaching consequences, including a boost to Pakistan’s regional standing, argues ROGER McKENZIE
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