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During the celebrations to mark the founder of the North's birthday, a North Korean ambassador took the opportunity to attack the US.

Ji Jae-ryong, the North's ambassador to China, used the opening of an exhibition marking the event in Beijing to brand the US an "enemy" of the state and to boast of North Korea's might as a "nuclear state and military power".

"Currently, enemy powers such as the United States are exerting unprecedented military and political suppression on our country," he said.



"But we have unswervingly demonstrated the power of a nuclear state and a military power, and firmly maintained peace and stability on the peninsula, and even in Northeast Asia and the whole world.



"And that is because we embrace comrade Kim Jong-Un as the top leader of our party and military," he said.

"As long as we follow the lead of comrade Kim Jong-Un, we are bound to obtain the great success of socialism," he added.