North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a parachuting drill of military sharpshooters and vowed to build an “invincible army,” displaying more defiance even as the United States and South Korea called off their own exercises to create space for nuclear diplomacy.
The location and the animal are symbols associated with the Kim family's dynastic rule.
North Korea has reportedly fired two short-range ballistic missiles from a new rocket launcher in its latest weapons test.
Kim Jong-un's teenage years are recounted in a new biography focusing on his time at a private school in Switzerland.