➡ North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attended a large military parade in Beijing, a rare event as he seldom leaves his country. This is seen as a political victory for Kim, who has been welcomed by China’s President Xi Jinping after years of no direct contact. Kim’s attendance is believed to be a result of sending North Korean troops to aid Russia in the Ukraine conflict. This event is seen as a display of solidarity among these nations, but some argue it’s merely propaganda.
➡ China showcased its military strength during a parade marking the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War Two. The event, attended by world leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was a demonstration of China’s power and alliances. The parade featured soldiers, tanks, and drones, emphasizing China’s readiness to protect itself. The presence of Putin and Kim Jong-un highlighted their importance to China’s leader, Xi Jinping.

Center at today’s massive military parade in Beijing was North Korean leader Kim Jong-un who rarely leaves his own country, his nation known as the Hermit Kingdom. CBS News foreign correspondent Ramey Inocenso joins us from our London bureau with what this all means. Ramey, I think you’ve got experts looking over every single frame of video because it’s so rare that we get to see the North Korean leader out of his own country. So what does his attendance really represent and what are we seeing? Yeah, that’s a good way to put a lot of dissection happening here.

This is a huge political victory for Kim Jong-un, that the world is now witnessing his leader of a pariah state that we know. He wants nuclear weapons and we know that he sent 15,000 troops to help Putin invade Ukraine and now President Xi Jinping has in effect welcomed him in from the cold, restored relations after about six years of no face-to-face strike. Do you know the level of sacrifice that he’s had to make in order to get into the good graces of China and Russia? All of these countries outside of China, and China to an extent too, are broken countries.

Bro, he had to basically send his own troops to get slaughtered. Think about that. Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-un had to send his North Korea, had to send his own troops to get slaughtered in the Ukraine-Russia war in order for him to be welcomed into the open arms of China and Russia and Iran. Do you know how evil you got to be to want to be friends with these people? That’s crazy. That is, all of these countries are real. All of these countries that you are witnessing right now are real. What does that mean? Well, first of all, a lot of people try to make it seem like China is really better than what it is.

It’s not. It’s not. It is a country that financially is suffering. They need oil, and so what happens is they become interdependent on each other in order for them to survive because they are not the economic powerhouse that they make themselves out to be. They need oil. Their real estate industry is reeling. They have been propping up their entire economy based off of what they’re doing within themselves, and it is a communist country. What they did was they leaned into Russia. They told Russia, well, listen, we’ll buy your oil because we know that you guys have sanctions and embargoes on you, and you guys have recently lost over 1.1, 1.2 million troops, and so these countries don’t even like each other.

China don’t like Russia. Russia don’t necessarily care for North Korea. Iran is just a sucker that just continues to be able to use whatever it is that they were using, and so everybody needs each other. North Korea wants to be a superpower. They want to be recognized by the world, but at the same time, the leader wants to keep a tight grip on the country, and so what he’s done is he’s basically given his own troops to be slaughtered because Russia is now having this propaganda that’s being implicated across this entire country to try to get people to join in on the war, but they are losing so many troops that it’s costing them more money every single day in order to recruit people to fight this war.

Russia was looked at prior to them going to war with Ukraine as a superpower. Russia, because they had nuclear weapons and they were supposed to be super capable, they said that they was going to go into Ukraine and absolutely take over Ukraine in two weeks. One million troops did later. It’s all pride at this point. It’s all pride. What we thought their technological capability was wasn’t what it was. Well, they still had to raise money. They still had to make money after getting cut off from the good graces of the rest of the world, and so they had to sell oil.

Well, they need China to buy oil because China is a producer exporting nation that is largely depending on the rest of the world in order for their economy to thrive because their real estate is absolutely collapsing. North Korea is always in trouble when they broke and all the day people are suffering and then we all know about what’s happening in Iran, so now they all coming together to show military might at a military parade in Beijing in order to try to show solidarity against the United States of America. This is all just propaganda.

Nothing more. Nothing more. This is all propaganda. Nothing more. It’s the truth. I’m going to just tell you the real. International relations, all of this is, is a display. This doesn’t mean anything whatsoever. Boy, if you don’t think that Vladimir Putin was looking over his head when he seen them bombers flying over when he was starting having a conversation with the United States of America about a possible ceasefire, yeah, they flexing for the ground. That’s it. All of this is propaganda. Flexing for the ground. On text, you can take a look there.

He is by President Xi’s side for much what we’re seeing, even having a great seat right in front of Tiananmen Square right there at that huge military parade today. This is choreography that you’re watching. This is Xi’s message to the world that Kim is with me. Now we spoke with North Korean expert Park Won-Gon. He’s in Seoul, South Korea and asked him what Kim’s biggest win is out of all of this. Take a listen. The normalised relationship between North Korea and China and it will help the North Korea’s future discussion or dialogue or whatever with President Trump.

The only thing North Korea had to offer was troops. Hey, listen, we’ll send some of our troops over there to get slaughtered if we can be a part of y’all, y’all, y’all whole military parade to be in your good graces. Hey, guys, I’m here too. Hey, hey, y’all. What’s going on? I’m here. I’m here too. I think still there is a possibility that Trump would try to meet Kim Jong Un again. So he’s saying that China’s restored support of North Korea could then help Kim meet Trump again. They already met three times, remember? Park also had a warning for…

This is the diplomats. This ain’t nothing but the diplomats. China’s camera. China do have some capabilities with China’s camera. Russia is Jim Jones. Iran is Jewell Santana. They thought that they had power until the Trump came in and kicked their teeth out. And North Korea is J.R. Ryder. Everybody get a diplomats chain. You get a diplomats chain. You get a diplomats. Dips, dip, sip, dip, sip, dip, sip. Everybody get a chain. You get a chain. You get a chain. You get a chain. You get a chain. That’s all this is. Washington, that Trump should not give up on the denuclearization of the North Korean peninsula.

If he did, he said there would be a nuclear China, nuclear Russia, and then nuclear North Korea and their governments all deeply anti-American. And, Rami, we’ve mentioned this hour. Kim’s massive slow-moving train heading into Beijing. He was joined by his daughter and sister on this trip. What’s the significance of that? Yeah. You know, to the casual observer era, one might think, oh, maybe this was a fun family trip to Beijing, but it might be that. However, it might also be dynastic tradition unfolding. And this is about Kim Jong-un’s daughter, specifically Kim Joo-e.

She’s believed to be 12, maybe 13 years old on the right-hand side of your screen. This was her first known trip outside of North Korea. It’s been tradition to bring future North Korean leaders, successors to China, so they can start building a relationship with Beijing. Kim’s father and grandfather did the same. But one challenge, though, is that she is female. And North Korea, we know, is a patriarchal society. So, yeah, he’s having trouble. I heard he’s having trouble having sons. And so, you know, they got to start handing the reins over to the daughter because they don’t want to have any kind of family squabbles or they don’t want to give up their dynasty.

So, you know, there’s that over there also. Let’s go over to CNN. We want to get it from a different perspective also because we don’t want to not see it from all lenses, you know what I’m saying? We’re watching live pictures tonight, right now, a massive parade underway in Beijing as the Chinese president Xi Jinping is showing off his country’s arsenal and military might to the world and to the more than two dozen foreign leaders who are there in person attending this military parade that includes those from Russia, North Korea, and Iran in a speech just a few moments ago.

Didn’t the Iran president practically give up his boy butt to the Trump administration and into Israel over not going over there and absolutely wiping them out? Didn’t they just get beat the F up over there in Iran? Didn’t Iran just, never mind, let’s continue. President Xi warned the world needs to choose, as he put it, quote, between peace and war. I want to straight to CNN’s Ivan Watson, who is live on the ground in Beijing. And obviously, Ivan, we’re watching this play out and just seeing, you know, how extensive this military parade is so far.

What’s clear to you from the message that China is trying to send tonight? This is a message of strength. This is a message of victory. After all, they are commemorating the 80th anniversary of the surrender of Japan. China was a major battleground in World War Two for eight long years to the tune of perhaps around 20 million Chinese casualties during the Japanese military’s invasion and occupation of parts of China. And this is a demonstration to China and the world that China is strong, it can protect itself, and that Xi. Is this supposed to be like impressive? Like, are we supposed to be wrong? A couple of bombers, a few drone strikes, we can wipe that whole thing out in like 30 seconds.

Give us about 20 seconds, 30 seconds tops. Obviously, it’s going to take some time to get there. You got to do staging. wars ain’t even fought like this no more, are they? Xi is the ruler of this country. He has just done a review of the troops in his presidential limousine and now we’re being treated to scenes of uniformed soldiers with helmets, you know, jogging alongside tanks and other military vehicles and jumping into them. We’re seeing drones on display and they will be part of the parade that is at hand here. You know, Caitlin, I think on the one hand, this is a demonstration of Chinese military muscle and discipline.

It’s a scorching hot day here in Beijing and the troops are out in full uniforms and helmets, jogging, marching in unison. But by the same token, there is a demonstration of China’s friends outside of China. And I think one of the enduring images that will emerge from this is of Xi Jinping walking up a red carpet towards the Tiananmen Gate from where he and other world leaders have been reviewing this parade and walking alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin to his right, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to his left, those two very important guests, the VIPs, and demonstrating how important they are to Xi Jinping himself by placing them front and center during what is effectively a Chinese celebration here.

They need to loan some of these troops over to Russia so that they can go ahead and take some more out with their drone strikes. [tr:trw].

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