North Korea holds military parade ahead of Olympics

North Korea held a massive military parade in Pyongyang on Thursday, showing off the regime’s military capabilities ahead of the start of the Winter Olympics across the border in Pyeongchang.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gave a speech at the parade, touting the country’s emergence as a “global military power” and calling for the military to be prepared to stop the United States from interfering with “the republic’s sacred dignity and autonomy even by 0.001 millimeters,” according to an Associated Press report.