Kim Jong Un declared Saturday that North Korea was ready to fight "any kind of war" waged by the United States, as he presided over a huge military parade in the center of Pyongyang to mark the 70th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party.<br />The highly orchestrated event - complete with goose-stepping soldiers, convoys of rocket launchers and missiles, and fighter jets roaring overhead - was the biggest such parade North Korea has ever held, part of Kim's efforts to bolster his leadership of the world's most closed and authoritarian state.<br />"We have stood up against the American imperialists, and we are ready for any kind of war against the United States," Kim said in a long speech before the parade, his first public address in three years.<br />"Our military's invincible spirit causes anxiety and fear to our enemies," said Kim.
