North Korea Announces Broadcast of 'Anti-Japanese Partisan' 90th Anniversary Military Parade Starting at 8 PM

North Korea held a military parade at Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang on the evening of the 25th to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Unit), according to the Korean Central News Agency on the 26th. (Image source=Yonhap News)

[Asia Economy Yang Nak-gyu, Military Specialist Reporter] North Korea announced that it plans to broadcast a recorded transmission of the parade commemorating the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (anti-Japanese guerrillas) starting at 8 p.m. on the 26th, which was held the previous evening.

Korean Central TV announced in the afternoon, "We will broadcast the parade celebrating the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army from 20:00."

It is known that North Korea held a nighttime parade starting around 10 p.m. the previous day, the actual 90th anniversary of the anti-Japanese guerrilla founding. North Korea did not mention the parade on Central TV or other outlets until that night, but from around 11 a.m. the next day, state media such as Korean Central News Agency and Rodong Sinmun extensively reported photos of the parade and the speech by State Affairs Commission Chairman Kim Jong-un.

In recent years, North Korea has frequently used this method of holding late-night parades and reporting them the following day. For example, on October 10, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the Workers' Party founding, and on September 9 last year, the 73rd anniversary of the regime establishment, parades were held around midnight, then released to the media in the morning and broadcast as recorded transmissions in the afternoon. The parade held in the evening after the 8th Workers' Party Congress on January 14 last year was also broadcast as a recorded transmission around 3 p.m. the following day.

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