Instead of Launching a Missile, North Korea Throws a Party
- 7 years ago
Instead of Launching a Missile, North Korea Throws a Party
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea marked its government’s 69th anniversary not with another missile test, as many had feared,
but with a gala party for the scientists involved in carrying out the country’s most powerful nuclear test yet last week, the state-run news media reported on Sunday.
On their way from the country’s underground nuclear test site in northeast North Korea to Pyongyang, the technicians had been
cheered by people who poured out to see them passing by, the country’s official Korean Central News Agency reported.
Mr. Kim’s government called it “a merciless sledgehammer blow to the U. S. imperialists.”
Outside officials and analysts had feared that the country would commemorate the birthday of its government on
Saturday by conducting another weapons test, possibly launching another intercontinental ballistic missile.
During the banquet on Saturday, Mr. Kim spurred his engineers to make “redoubled efforts, not slackening the spirit displayed
by them in bringing the great auspicious event of the national history,” the North Korean news agency said.
“He put forward the tasks for the scientists and technicians in the field of defense science to conduct scientific researches for
bolstering up the nuclear deterrence of self-defense in the drive to attain the final goal of completing the state nuclear force
The country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, celebrated the national holiday on Saturday by bringing his nuclear scientists
and engineers to Pyongyang, the capital, and holding a banquet.
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea marked its government’s 69th anniversary not with another missile test, as many had feared,
but with a gala party for the scientists involved in carrying out the country’s most powerful nuclear test yet last week, the state-run news media reported on Sunday.
On their way from the country’s underground nuclear test site in northeast North Korea to Pyongyang, the technicians had been
cheered by people who poured out to see them passing by, the country’s official Korean Central News Agency reported.
Mr. Kim’s government called it “a merciless sledgehammer blow to the U. S. imperialists.”
Outside officials and analysts had feared that the country would commemorate the birthday of its government on
Saturday by conducting another weapons test, possibly launching another intercontinental ballistic missile.
During the banquet on Saturday, Mr. Kim spurred his engineers to make “redoubled efforts, not slackening the spirit displayed
by them in bringing the great auspicious event of the national history,” the North Korean news agency said.
“He put forward the tasks for the scientists and technicians in the field of defense science to conduct scientific researches for
bolstering up the nuclear deterrence of self-defense in the drive to attain the final goal of completing the state nuclear force
The country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, celebrated the national holiday on Saturday by bringing his nuclear scientists
and engineers to Pyongyang, the capital, and holding a banquet.