North Korean leader Kim attends concert glorifying his power

North Korean TV showed Mr Kim galloping through a forest on a white horse – a symbol associated with his family’s dynastic rule over the country – in a new documentary

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Picture: Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his wife have attended a Lunar New Year’s Day concert in Pyongyang where he received cheers from audience members and artists who praised him for heralding a “new era” of national power, state media reported.

The North’s official media has been highlighting Kim’s authoritarian leadership following a spree of missile tests in January, which some experts see as an attempt to pressure Washington over deadlocked nuclear negotiations after two years of pandemic border closures and economic decay.