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North Korea vows ‘revenge’ against US in rallies marking war anniversary
- A stadium in Pyongyang was packed with masked crowds holding placards reading ‘the whole US mainland is within our shooting range’
- They were ‘burning with indomitable will to revenge the enemy’: the US that left Koreans with ‘wounds … that can never be healed’, state media said
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Tens of thousands of North Koreans marched in anti-US rallies in the nation’s capital over the weekend, pledging “merciless” revenge against “US imperialists”, as the country marked the 73rd anniversary of the start of the Korean war, state media said Monday.
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More than 120,000 people took part in Sunday’s mass rallies in Pyongyang, North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said.
Photos released by state media showed a stadium crowded with people holding placards reading “the whole US mainland is within our shooting range” and “the imperialist US is the destroyer of peace”.
Sunday’s anniversary came amid concerns Pyongyang could soon conduct another launch of its first military spy satellite to boost monitoring of US military activities after its first attempt ended in failure on May 31.
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