N. Korea foundation day-Military parade marks the 63rd anniversary of DPRK

By josephine - Sat Sep 10, 6:56 am

North Korea marked the 63rd anniversary of its founding with a massive outdoor rally. Thousands of North Korean soldiers and Pyongyang citizens along with government officials participated in the rally in central Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung square.

Leader Kim Jong-il recently told China he was willing to return to stalled nuclear talks “without precondition,” according to Chinese media, following a similar pledge to Russia. North Korea signed an agreement in 2005 to scrap its nuclear programmes in exchange for economic and energy aid and diplomatic relations with the United States and Japan.

While in a visit to Russia last month, Kim promised to consider suspending nuclear arms tests and production if international talks on Pyongyang’s atomic program resume, a Kremlin spokeswoman said. The pledge, made at talks with President Dmitry Medvedev, was intended to improve the chances of reviving the six-nation aid-for-disarmament talks that collapsed when North Korea walked out of them in 2008.

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