As its ruling party turns 80, an emboldened Kim Jong Un shows off North Korea’s new hypersonic weapon, ICBM

North Korea showed off a new hypersonic glide vehicle and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) at a military parade late Friday, as it marked 80 years of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea.

The Hwasong-11Ma hypersonic weapon and the Hwasong-20 ICBM, which state media called North Korea’s “most powerful nuclear strategic weapons system,” were among an arsenal of North Korean weaponry featured in the overnight parade in Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung Square.

The celebration came a month after leader Kim Jong Un scored a major diplomatic victory by traveling to Beijing for a massive Chinese military parade, where he had the rare chance to stand alongside global heavyweights on the global stage, namely Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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