The North Korea's ‘highly-trained’ troops carried grenade-launchers and yelled patriotic slogans during a military parade as part of the nation’s Day Of The Sun celebration at the weekend.
The said unit is reported to be the best equipped in the Korean People’s Army, according to the Mail Online, and were visible with night vision goggles strapped to their helmets as well as handguns on their chests.
And a parade comes amid growing tensions between the US and North Korea with the state warning it was prepared for ‘all-out war’ if Donald Trump risks military action.
According to South Korean intelligence the unit would defend North Korea from elite US soldiers if war broke out.
The soldiers would defend North Korea in a war with the US (Picture: AFP./STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Korean People’s Army (KPA) soldiers march through Kim Il-Sung square (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)
Soldiers on tanks parade across Kim Il Sung Square (Picture: AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
CNN reported the soldiers were singled out as the most ‘highly trained, well-equipped, best fed and highly motivated’ forces in North Korea’s army.
The parade on Saturday took place on the 105th birthday of North Korea’s founder Kim Jong-ul, the grandfather of Kim Jong-un.
Commandoes march across the Kim Il Sung Square (Picture: AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
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