In a massive show of force ahead of the iconic sporting event, Kim Jong-un’s regime rolled out the Hwasong-15 rockets and their mobile launchers alongside some 13,000 troops.
The rogue state says the weapon is its “most powerful” to date, and experts believe the ICBM has a range of around 8,077 miles (13,000km).
Other hardware on parade on Kim Il-sung Square included tanks, artillery pieces and anti-aircraft guns.
North Korean leader Kim reviewed the display of military might, the first to take place since April last year, from a balcony above the plaza.
Footage from today’s parade shows at least four of the 18-wheel launchers being driven through Pyongyang.
The vehicles are armed with identical black missiles to the one pictured before the regime’s test launch in November, though it is impossible to tell whether the weapons are real or just props.
Following the launch from a site north of the capital, North Korean state media announced the November test was a success.
Experts disagree over whether Kim’s regime already has the means to mount a miniaturised nuclear warhead on the missile, though there is a consensus the reclusive state will eventually develop the capacity.
The parade came on the same day the North announced it has no intention of meeting with officials from the US during the games at PyongChang in South Korea, which open on Friday just 50 miles from the heavily armed border separating the two Koreas.
There had been hopes the event would provide a chance for senior figures from the Kim regime to open up a dialogue with US representatives, if only on the sidelines.
But the North’s KCNA news agency reported a senior foreign ministry official as saying: ”We have never begged for dialogue with the US nor in the future, too.
“Explicitly speaking, we have no intention to meet with the US side during the stay in South Korea.
“Our delegation’s visit to South Korea is only to take part in the Olympics and hail its successful holding.”
However, Seoul has hinted at attempting to forge closer relations with Pyongyang, saying today the South would be open to discussing resuming tours to North Korea’s Mount Kumgang once the security of tourists was guaranteed and conditions relating to North Korea’s nuclear programme were met.
Tours from the South to the resort were closed after a South Korean tourist was shot by a North Korean guard in 2008.