North Koreans marked the Day of Anti-US Struggle with a mass rally in the capital city, state-media reported on Monday.
Senior members of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea and high-level government officials joined representatives from all walks of life on Sunday to denounce the US for starting the Korean War on June 25, 1950, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
They also held a public procession following the rally, reports Xinhua news agency.
Speakers at the event accused the US of using "all kinds of the cruel methods and means to commit an unheard-of holocaust and vandalism" and making "wholesale use of germ and chemical weapons prohibited by international law" said KCNA.
Participants said the atrocities against the Korean people "were recorded in history as scars never to be healed".
Similar mass rallies were held across the country .
The Korean War ended in 1953 with an armistice, leaving the peninsula virtually in a state of war ever since.
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