IMO, NK is easily the winner of the dictatorship spectacle award. I don't recall the Soviets ever doing anything even remotely this impressive people-wise although they had far more aircraft to show off and while the Nazis had impressive spectacles with a lot of people standing in rows, I don't recall nearly this much stuff in motion.
The alignment precision and step sync of the marchers is very impressive and that goose stepping must really HURT. I've seen elsewhere from those who have escaped NK that they bind/girdle their abdomens because of the shock forces on internal organs.
I was waiting for someone with locked knees to collapse in the units standing at attention, but I guess there's a very great incentive not to. Temp was mid-70s with 43% humidity. Long speeches at the beginning.
At 55:35, we see a unit with black camo painted faces and NVGs each carrying what look like very large caliber grenade launchers and related gear storage. During their pass by the reviewing stand one of the military officers hides his mouth with his notebook as he talks in the ear of fat boy, I assume about the unit passing, hiding his mouth I suspect to prevent lip reading of classified talk.
Anyone here understand Korean who can tell us what the narrator is saying about that group?
The hardware review begins at 1:10 with a very unimpressive prop aircraft formation flyover and, later, lots of missiles.
[video=youtube;9vn57jxF9Ow]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vn57jxF9Ow[/video]
North Korean military parade: What the cameras didn’t show you
Exclusive pictures show both excitement of soldiers and details of advanced weaponry
Aug 1, 2013
https://www.nknews.org/2013/08/north-korean-military-parade-what-the-cameras-didnt-show-you/