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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam N.Korea puts power and heir apparent on display AFP - 2 hours 12 minutes ago Send IM Story Print SEOUL (AFP) - – Secretive North Korea put its leader-in-waiting on show Sunday at a huge military parade, introducing the youngest son of current ruler Kim Jong-Il to its people and the world on live television. Kim Jong-Un, believed aged about 27, stood near his father at the Pyongyang parade, applauding and saluting as thousands of goose-stepping troops marched past along with trucks carrying missiles and other weaponry. The parade, one of the largest for years in the hardline communist state, was aired live both by state TV and by foreign broadcasters, giving many North Koreans their first extensive look at the young heir apparent. Jong-Un was catapulted into the limelight in late September with promotions to four-star general and to powerful ruling party posts. The impoverished but nuclear-armed nation ostensibly staged Sunday's event to mark the party's 65th anniversary but it seemed designed to showcase the start of the succession process. In the South Korean capital Seoul, the man who once tutored the current leader before defecting in 1997 was found dead Sunday at his home, police said. They gave no immediate details of the death of Hwang Jang-Yop, 87, who became a bitter critic of the Kim regime, which has ruled the North with an iron first since its founding in 1948. News reports said Hwang may have suffered a heart attack. Related article: Highest-ranking N.Korean defector dies The Swiss-educated Jong-Un remains a mystery to the outside world. Until late September his name had never been carried by official media nor had a photo of the chubby youth been issued. Analysts said the parade could be designed to bolster military support for a second eventual dynastic succession after Kim Jong-Il took over from his own father and founding president Kim Il-Sung, who died in 1994. Kim Jong-Il suffered a stroke two years ago and since then has apparently speeded up plans to put an eventual successor in place, even though he does not appear to be in a hurry to step down. The North is locked in a dispute with the West over its nuclear weapons programme and is struggling to revive its crumbling command economy. Military chief of staff Ri Yong-Ho, in a speech at the parade, vowed to use atomic weapons in self-defence "if the US imperialists and their followers encroach upon the sovereignty and dignity of the country even a bit", the official news agency reported. A bugle call signalled the start of the parade and a flag bearing the portrait of Kim Il-Sung was brought into the square, the agency said. "All the paraders looked up to the flag in the humblest reverence." The parade "held in grand style" involved the army, navy and air force of the 1.2-million-member military, it said, along with internal security forces, Worker-Peasant Red Guards and Young Red Guards. "Missile and interceptor missile complexes... moved past the tribune of honour demonstrating the will and might of Songun (army-first) Korea to wipe out the enemy, bringing the splendid military parade to an end." Leader Kim, dressed in his customary khaki tunic suit, occasionally applauded and raised his right hand to salute the troops. He was seen limping in his left leg. A large crowd in the background of the parade held up objects shaped like floral bouquets in unison to make huge signs such as "the Workers' Party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" and "the 65th Anniversary". The North's official news agency said Jong-Un, together with senior party and military officials including his father, visited the mausoleum containing the embalmed corpse of Kim Il-Sung at midnight Saturday. 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