Mass rally in North Korea to celebrate new congress
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On Tuesday, Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans celebrated the country's newly completed ruling-party congress with a large-scale civilian parade featuring floats bearing patriotic slogans and marchers with flags and pompoms.
Leader Kim Jong-un presided over the parade and waved to the crowd. The four-day congress completed Monday was the authoritarian country's first since 1980, before Kim was even born.
The rubberstamp body made up of more than 3,400 delegates endorsed Kim's nuclear and economic policies, promoted his favored officials and gave him the new title of party chairman.
Despite still maintaining his dictator status, by calling a congress—something his father, Kim Jong-il, never did—Kim Jong-un has demonstrated what may be a more democratic-appearing leadership style like that of his charismatic yet controversial grandfather, Kim Il-sung, who had fought for North Korea's independence from Japan and developed a cult following around himself.
