North Korea flaunts missiles, military might

SEOUL — North Korea’s latest military hardware, including what analysts said appeared to be three types of intercontinental ballistic missiles, rolled through Pyongyang on Saturday, as the country tried to demonstrate that its military reach is expanding at a time of heightened tensions with the United States.

The United States, China and other regional powers had feared that North Korea might mark the occasion by conducting its sixth nuclear test or by launching an intercontinental ballistic missile.

To military analysts scrutinizing North Korea’s broadcast of the parade, the most noteworthy element seemed to be three types of long-range ballistic missiles, one of them apparently new.

While the North has repeatedly claimed that it can strike the United States with a nuclear warhead, it has never flight-tested an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of crossing the Pacific.