North Korea puts on a show for Day of the Sun

North Korea put its military might on display during a parade in the heart of Pyongyang while the regime showed off some of its latest arsenal. Pictures on state television showed thousands of soldiers marching in formation alongside tanks, balloons and enormous crowds. Leader Kim Jong Un was shown clapping and smiling from a reviewing box. At one point, the soldiers directed a chant toward him. "We saw a submarine launch ballistic missiles, we saw missiles that are capable of being launched from a mobile launcher and just seconds before we came on the air we saw these very large what are believed to be intercontinental ballistic missiles," as jets tracked colors of the North Korean flag in the sky during the parade. In a live broadcast, a newsreader from North Korea's state-run television service called the new military hardware the country's "modernized strategic missiles." "No nation in the world develops missiles and shows the real thing during a parade, it's just too dangerous," Markus Schiller, a weapons expert with ST Analytics, told CNN that parades always involve "mock-ups". "If anything happens, it blows up, right next to the 'Dear Leader'."