North Korea: Kim Jong-un watches air show on ‘Aviation Day’ | World News

Kim Jong-un has celebrated success in the North Korean ‘elections’ this week by watching an air show.

The supreme leader of the repressive regime called for his military to be ready to respond to threats on the country’s ‘Aviation Day’ holiday.

He was seen watching the show alongside his young daughter, Kim Ju Ae, while both wearing long trench coats.

Pyongyang has today vowed to deploy stronger armed forces and new weapons along its border with the South.

State news agency KCNA reported this will increase North Korea’s ‘capabilities to fight a war to the full’.

‘He set forth operational and tactical policies… so as to counter any military provocation and threat of the enemy immediately and powerfully,’ the agency added.

Kim praised the air force for being ‘fully prepared to perfectly carry out their air combat missions under any unfavourable situation’.

Tensions between North and South Korea have increased since the dictator last month launched a spy satellite.

This prompted Seoul to partially suspend an inter-Korean military agreement, with Japan criticising the North for violating UN Security Council regulations.

But Pyongyang since said it would launch more satellites, saying the North has a right to self-defence.

The latest North Korea elections earlier this week saw the number of people who voted for Kim’s party fall by 0.09%.

Just 99.91% residents voted for the Workers’ Party of Korea, despite the last elections of this kind in July 2019 seeing 100% of votes go towards the party.

An official at South Korea’s unification ministry said it is the first time North Korea has referred to opposing votes in local polls since the 1960s.

Analysts have suggested the election ‘results’ are simply an attempt to portray an image of a normal society, rather than an indication of an increase of rights in the country.

Elections in North Korea are widely viewed as a sham, or simply a formality.

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