North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju on Sunday night attended the country's first "Mass Games" in five years, a week ahead of a summit with the South's President Moon Jae In in Pyongyang.
The massive, coordinated gymnastic and artistic performance was held at the 150,000-seat multipurpose May Day Stadium in Pyongyang as part of celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of North Korea's founding. It featured technologies such as drones and projection mapping.
An image of Kim and Moon hugging at their summit on April 27 was displayed during the show, as the North apparently tries to deepen inter-Korean ties amid the ongoing deadlock in denuclearization negotiations with the United States.
IN PHOTOS: North Korea's 70th anniversary parade, mass games
Drones carrying lights formed the words "Shining Fatherland" in the night sky as part of the choreographed spectacle that involved tens of thousands of people and featured acrobatics, dancing and huge mosaics created by students holding up colored cards.
The first such performance since September 2013, it is scheduled to last through October. North Korea was established on Sept. 9, 1948, backed by the Soviet Union.
The two Koreas have agreed to hold a third summit meeting between Moon and Kim in Pyongyang on Sept. 18-20, the Seoul government said.
