Posted on 06/26/2018 8:36:38 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
North Korea will cancel its annual “anti-US imperialism” rally, part of a growing detente with its longstanding enemy as the two countries negotiate over the fate of the North’s nuclear weapons program.
The rally, which typically marks the start of a month of events commemorating the 1950-53 Korean war and denouncing the US, has been held for years and last year attracted 100,000 people in the capital, Pyongyang. North Korean officials did not give a reason for skipping the rally, according to the Associated Press, which first reported the cancellation.
The event usually features slogans and propaganda cartoons attacking the US, participants raising their fists in defiance and even commemorative postage stamps showing the destruction of the US. Last year one official said all members of the ruling Workers’ party and residents of Pyongyang were “aflame with the will to completely remove the US imperialists, the sworn enemy, from the globe”.
In the past the rally has allowed North Korea to communicate its political message to the world, which has centred on grievances over US policy in the region....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
So are we Oceania, or Eurasia?
Oh no, those are always a hoot. Thank goodness the democrats are still holding their daily anit-US rallies!
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Trump told the Young Un to clean up his act and I’ll get back to you ,LOL
More signs that Kim Jong Un is serious about having peace. This is good news.
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