N. Korean People hold anti-US rally, vow revenge against it

Nearly 120,000 mostly young North Koreans have taken part in mass rallies held in the capital Pyongyang, censuring US “imperialism” and vowing a “war of revenge” against it while marking the 73rd anniversary of the Korean War.

Photos of the event published Monday by the official Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) showed a stadium crowded with people with many marching and shouting slogans and some carrying placards reading: “Entire US mainland is within our shooting range” and “The imperialist US is the destroyer of peace.”

North Korea now had “the strongest absolute weapon to punish the US imperialists” and the “avengers on this land are burning with the indomitable will to revenge the enemy,” the KCNA report further stated.

The Korean War between the US-led forces in the South and the China-backed North began on June 25, 1950, and continued for three years, leading to the killing of an estimated two million people and ending in a truce instead of a peace treaty.

The commemorative events on Sunday came as Pyongyang tested numerous missiles and other weapons earlier in the year and attempted last month to launch its first surveillance satellite into orbit that ended in failure, though Pyongyang pledged to re-launch the satellite on a yet unspecified date.