The Art of the Military Parade Is More Subtle Than Trump Anticipated

When Kim Jong Un holds a military parade, it’s a spectacle. Like a festooning peacock, North Korea’s army struts and postures for the cameras—tight formations, glossy hardware, the whole bit. It’s theater. The irony, of course, is that the North Korean military, for all its pomp, could barely scratch the American armed forces in any real contest. But ju…