Thousands of people in colourful traditional dress filled the streets of the North Korean capital for the late-night event, the images showed, waving national flags and cheering as weapons rumbled down the main streets.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and deputy chairman of Russia’s security council Dmitry Medvedev look at archive photos and documents during a meeting in Pyongyang on Friday. Source: EPA / Ekaterina Shtukina

Among the featured weapons, long-range strategic cruise missiles, drone launch vehicles, and ground-to-air and ground-to-ground missiles paraded one after another, KCNA added.

“The heroic fighting spirit displayed, and the victory achieved, by our revolutionary armed forces on the foreign battlefields for international justice … demonstrated the ideological and spiritual perfection,” he said, according to KCNA.

The parade showed off what North Korea claims is a new intercontinental ballistic missile called the Hwasong-20. Source: AP / KCNA

Around 600 North Korean soldiers have been killed and thousands more wounded fighting for Russia, Seoul has said.

‘Stark warning’

Last month, Kim appeared alongside Chinese President Xi Jinping and Putin at an elaborate military parade in Beijing.