North Korea's first lady cries next to Kim Jong Un during armistice event

North Korea's first lady Ri Sol-ju cried next to her husband and leader Kim Jong-un while singing the national anthem during an event marking the 69th anniversary of the July 27 Korean War armistice, footage aired on Thursday from state-run television KRT showed.
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In a speech to commemorate the event, Kim said his country is ready to mobilise its nuclear war deterrent and denounced South Korea's new conservative president Yoon Suk-yeol by name for the first time, labelling attempts to neutralise the North's military as 'nonsense'.

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