The balloons also contained two-thousand one-dollar US bills, one-thousand DVDs and 500 booklets denouncing North Korea's nuclear and missile threats and the third-generation dynastic power succession.
The reclusive communist nation rolled out new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICMBs) and other military hardware in a huge parade Saturday marking the 105-year anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the country's late founder.
The annual U.S. -South Korea military exercises have consistently infuriated the North, which views them as rehearsals for an invasion.
The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier has been diverted back to the waters off Korea after heading for Australia, and US satellite imagery suggests the North could conduct another underground nuclear test at any time.
North Korea's goal is to build a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile capable of striking the United States.
The U.S.is weighing several military options for responding to North Korean provocation. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence travels to South Korea on Sunday on a long-planned 10-day trip to Asia. Moving forces near the peninsula, even as a preemptive measure, could increase the risk of a large-scale conflict.
"Your willingness to step forward, to serve, to stand firm without fear, inspires the nation and inspires the world", he said after being introduced by Gen. Vincent Brooks, the top USA commander in South Korea.
Kim Jong-un did not speak at the parade but waved from a balcony.
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But he insists China - the North's sole major ally and economic lifeline - must exert more leverage on Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear ambitions or suffer the consequences.
"If the United States wages reckless provocation against us, our revolutionary power will instantly counter with annihilating strike, and we will respond to full out war with full out war and to nuclear war with our style of nuclear strike warfare". At the other end of the spectrum, they looked at the notion of accepting North Korea as a nuclear state.
The analyst added that North Korea is also likely to be developing solid-fuel ICBMs, and that some of the rockets inside the canisters on Saturday might have been prototypes.
"Now the US imperialists have struck a sovereign country", he said. The South Korean government believed Kim Won-hong had been sent to a "political re-education" prison camp for sending false reports to Kim Jong-un.
Han said US sanctions efforts are misguided and cited the opening ceremony of a sprawling new high-rise residential area in Pyongyang on Thursday as evidence that sanctions have failed to ruin the country's economy. "If the USA government pre-emptively strikes our country, we are ready to counter strongly".
Also on Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said all sides must stop provoking and threatening and start taking a flexible approach to resuming dialogue.
Displaying more than one of the missiles indicates North Korea is progressing with its plan to base a missile on a submarine, which are hard to detect, said Joshua Pollack, editor of the Washington-based Nonproliferation Review.
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