Mr. Kim appeared to be eager to feed that hunger and display his country's latest military hardware just months after a serious flare in tensions on the divided peninsula that included threats to stage nuclear attacks.
In Wednesday's fighting, the most serious flare-up in Lebanon for nearly three weeks, the five militiamen were killed when a roadside bomb exploded near one of their patrols in the zone, Lebanese security officials said.
Last November, an attritional campaign to control the area led to 10 days of clashes, the most serious flare-up with the Kurds anywhere in Iraq in the 12 years since the fall of Baghdad.
Narendra Modi, prime minister of India, is currently campaigning to diplomatically isolate Pakistan following a serious flare-up of hostilities in Kashmir, the contested Himalayan region the two countries have fought over three times since 1947.
But he cautions against making predictions about the future: "You can never know what will lead to a serious flare up". he said.
Recently I had a pretty serious flare-up of my Crohn's Disease, a chronic illness I've had most of my life and which I don't recommend to anyone - but it was serious enough to put me into Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles for two weeks (and, ahem, just for the record, I was not the biggest celebrity there during my stay).
The remaining patients stated that they visited their main HCP when feeling unwell or having a flare-up (29%), or only if experiencing a serious flare (27%).
One woman with ulcerative colitis, for example, described her fear of dependency on steroids after a serious flare-up when her " normal" medication " had stopped working".
A full recovery from a serious flare up can take 6-12 months, and especially during the first few weeks good pain relief is essential for the animal's welfare.
I stayed that way for five years and then had another serious autoimmune flare.
