The parade, like each year, was large but missing conspicuously were Kim Jong-Un's intercontinental ballistic missiles. That was due to his June summit with US President Donald Trump.
Armoured personnel carriers, multiple rocket launchers and tanks followed, with biplanes flying overhead in a '70' formation. At one point jets trailing red, white and blue smoke -- the colours of the North Korean flag -- roared above the Juche Tower, the stone monument to Kim Il Sung's political philosophy.