About 120,000 working people and students took part in the
rallies held across the capital on Sunday, state news agency
KCNA reported.
Photos released by state media showed a stadium crowded with
people holding placards reading "The whole U.S. mainland is
within our shooting range" and "The imperialist U.S. is the
destroyer of peace."
Sunday's anniversary came amid concerns Pyongyang could soon
conduct another launch of its first military spy satellite to
boost monitoring of U.S. military activities after its first
attempt ended in failure on May 31.
North Korea now had "the strongest absolute weapon to punish the
U.S. imperialists" and the "avengers on this land are burning
with the indomitable will to revenge the enemy," KCNA said.
Nuclear-armed North Korea has been testing various weapons
including its biggest intercontinental ballistic missile,
ramping up tension with the South and the South's main ally, the
United States.
In a separate foreign ministry report, North Korea said the U.S.
was "making desperate efforts to ignite a nuclear war," accusing
Washington of sending strategic assets to the region.
North and South Korea remain technically at war because their
1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a treaty.
(Reporting by Soo-hyang Choi; Editing by Stephen Coates)
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