73 Years of The Korean War, Pyongyang: Mainland US Within Our Reach

The government of North Korea mobilized its citizens to march, condemning and threatening the United States, to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War on Sunday, June 25, 2023.

About 120,000 people marched in Pyongyang, chanting slogans such as "revenge war".

Demonstrators consisting of workers and students took part in rallies held across the capital on Sunday, state news agency KCNA reported.

Photos released by state media showed a packed stadium with people holding placards reading "The entire continental US is within our firing range" and "US imperialists are destroyers of peace."

Sunday's warning comes amid fears Pyongyang could soon carry out another launch of its first military spy satellite to improve monitoring of US military activities after its first attempt ended in failure on May 31.

North Korea now possesses the "absolutely strongest weapon to punish the US imperialists," and "the avengers on this land are burning with an indomitable desire to avenge the enemy," KCNA said.

Nuclear-armed North Korea has tested a variety of weapons, including its largest intercontinental ballistic missile, ratcheting up tensions with South Korea and South Korea's main ally, the United States.

In a separate foreign ministry report, North Korea said the US was "making desperate efforts to precipitate a nuclear war," accusing Washington of sending strategic assets to the region.

South and North Korea are still technically at war because their 1950–53 conflict ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.