Eager citizens waved flags and aged veterans stood at attention as armor rumbled through central Seoul’s concrete canyons, while a line of Apache attack helicopters whirled overhead and formations of fighter jets thundered through the clouds.

South Korea showcased a ballistic missile capable of carrying an eight-ton warhead and featured a flypast of a U.S. bomber at military parades in Seoul on Tuesday, a show of force now held annually to signal readiness to respond to North Korean threats.

Bailey Duran of Cortez has continued to report for The Journal while visiting South Korea to study the language. On Monday, tens of thousands of people lined the streets of

The South Korean military displayed about 340 military equipment and weapons systems. Among them was its most powerful Hyunmoo-5 ballistic missile, which observers say is capable of carrying an 8-ton conventional warhead that can penetrate deep into the earth and destroy underground bunkers in North Korea.

South Korea will hold a military parade in Seoul on Tuesday that could include, for the first time, a flypast by a U.S. B-1B supersonic bomber as neighbouring North Korea criticised the deployment of U.

"If North Korea attempts to use nuclear weapons, it will face the resolute and overwhelming response of our military and the (South Korea)-US alliance," President Yoon Suk Yeol said.

On Tuesday, to mark Armed Forces Day, South Korea publicly showcased its most powerful weapon, the Hyunmoo-5 missile, for the first time. The exhibition, held at a military airfield in Seongnam, south of Seoul,

South Korea has unveiled its latest version of the Hyunmoo-V missile, a cutting-edge ballistic weapon designed specifically to target deeply buried bunkers and missile silos in North Korea. Despite not being equipped with a nuclear warhead,