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This picture released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on September 10, 2011 via the Tokyo-based Korean News Service (KNS) shows a military parade to celebrate the 63rd founding anniversary of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in Pyongyang on September 9, 2011. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il and his son on September 9 reviewed a parade of military hardware and thousands of goose-stepping troops, in what analysts saw as a bid to bolster loyalty to the regime. AFP PHOTO / HO / KCNA via KNS