Thousands take to the streets of Pyongyang for mass rally marking North Korea's 'Day of Struggle' and 67 years since the start of the Korean War

  • North Koreans paraded into Pyongyang's Kim II-sung Square to mark the star of the Korean War's in 1950
  • Massed ranks of civilians held their fists aloft as they chanted anti-US slogans and listened to fiery speeches
  • The event comes amid the annual 'Struggle Against US Imperialism' month which citizens are forced to mark 

By Rory Tingle For Mailonline

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With their fists clenched in the air as they chanted regime slogans, thousands of North Koreans took to the streets of their capital city for a mass anti-US rally. 

Wearing simple white or khaki shirts, men and women paraded into Pyongyang's Kim II-sung Square to mark the 67th anniversary of the Korean War, which comes during the annual 'Struggle Against US Imperialism' month. 

Participants chanted slogans based on the warped history of the Korean War taught in local schools, where they are also constantly told that Koreans 'can never trust the American imperialists'.

With their fists clenched in the air as they chanted regime slogans, thousands of North Koreans took to the streets of their capital city for a mass anti-US rally. They carried banners picturing their country's troops slaying the US 'oppressors'

With their fists clenched in the air as they chanted regime slogans, thousands of North Koreans took to the streets of their capital city for a mass anti-US rally. They carried banners picturing their country's troops slaying the US 'oppressors'

Wearing simple white or khaki shirts, men and women paraded into Pyongyang's Kim II-sung Square to mark the 67th anniversary of the Korean War, which comes during the annual 'Struggle Against US Imperialism' month

Wearing simple white or khaki shirts, men and women paraded into Pyongyang's Kim II-sung Square to mark the 67th anniversary of the Korean War, which comes during the annual 'Struggle Against US Imperialism' month

Participants chanted slogans based on the warped history of the Korean War taught in local schools, where they are also constantly told that Koreans 'can never trust the American imperialists'

Participants chanted slogans based on the warped history of the Korean War taught in local schools, where they are also constantly told that Koreans 'can never trust the American imperialists'

Though often called the 'Forgotten War' in the United States, the 1950-53 Korean War is anything but forgotten in North Korea. Its anniversary is marked every year in a regime-sponsored event that citizens are required to take part in

Though often called the 'Forgotten War' in the United States, the 1950-53 Korean War is anything but forgotten in North Korea. Its anniversary is marked every year in a regime-sponsored event that citizens are required to take part in

Though often called the 'Forgotten War' in the United States, the 1950-53 Korean War is anything but forgotten in North Korea.

The conflict, which lasted from 1950-53, started with a massive North Korean attack across the 38th parallel, along which the Korean peninsula was divided into the communist North and the capitalist South.

It soon developed into an international war, drawing in the United States and its allies on the South's side and China on the North's.

Around one million South Koreans were killed or wounded, while casualties among North Korean civilians were estimated to be 1.5 million.

The conflict, which lasted from 1950-53, started with a massive North Korean attack across the 38th parallel, along which the Korean peninsula was divided into the communist North and the capitalist South. Yet the Kim regiment presents it as an example of US oppression, exemplified by this poster showing a defiant North Korean woman held behind barbed wire

The conflict, which lasted from 1950-53, started with a massive North Korean attack across the 38th parallel, along which the Korean peninsula was divided into the communist North and the capitalist South. Yet the Kim regiment presents it as an example of US oppression, exemplified by this poster showing a defiant North Korean woman held behind barbed wire

The main poster on display here shows a US soldier being knocked down by North Korean soldiers despite his arsenal of modern missiles. The Korean War was always an international conflict, drawing in the United States and its allies on the South's side and China on the North's

The main poster on display here shows a US soldier being knocked down by North Korean soldiers despite his arsenal of modern missiles. The Korean War was always an international conflict, drawing in the United States and its allies on the South's side and China on the North's

Around one million South Koreans were killed or wounded, while casualties among North Korean civilians were estimated to be 1.5 million. Memories of the suffering civilians went through remains a useful took for Kim's regime to manipulate for its own ends

Around one million South Koreans were killed or wounded, while casualties among North Korean civilians were estimated to be 1.5 million. Memories of the suffering civilians went through remains a useful took for Kim's regime to manipulate for its own ends

The Kim regime claims the war was started by the United States. This plays into the regime's narrative of North Korea as an eternally persecuted nation, struggling to survive against the evil might of the capitalist West

The Kim regime claims the war was started by the United States. This plays into the regime's narrative of North Korea as an eternally persecuted nation, struggling to survive against the evil might of the capitalist West

The Kim regime claims the war was started by the United States.

Meanwhile in South Korea, the government has marked the war's anniversary in a more peaceable manner - by urging the north to suspend its development of nuclear weapons. 

'The North continues provocative military actions such as launching a ballistic missile,' Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon told war veterans and government officials at a ceremony in the capital, Seoul.

The 67th anniversary of war comes amid fears the North will conduct a sixth nuclear test and more ballistic missile launches in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

Mr Lee said the North 'should stop developing missile and nuclear programmes and come out on to the path of denuclearisation on the Korean peninsula'.       

Unlike the massed rallies in the North, pictured, South Korea marked the war's anniversary in a more peaceable manner - by urging the north to suspend its development of nuclear weapons

Unlike the massed rallies in the North, pictured, South Korea marked the war's anniversary in a more peaceable manner - by urging the north to suspend its development of nuclear weapons

The 67th anniversary of war comes amid fears the North will conduct a sixth nuclear test and more ballistic missile launches in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions

The 67th anniversary of war comes amid fears the North will conduct a sixth nuclear test and more ballistic missile launches in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions

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