Pyongyang will see North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party celebrate its 80 years of existence, with top Chinese and Russian officials in attendance.
Chinese premier Li Qiang and Russian Security Council deputy chief Dmitry Medvedev will attend the event, which analysts say underscores—amid global tensions—the strengthening Pyongyang-Beijing-Moscow alliance .
Experts expect the parade to showcase new intercontinental missiles, drones and air-defense systems—often developed with Russian assistance.
The upcoming parade will be Pyongyang’s message to Trump that “the old formula for dealing with North Korea is defunct”, according to Seong-Hyon Lee, a visiting scholar at the Harvard University Asia Center.
