Hwasong-17 ICBMs are displayed during the military parade at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang. [KCNA via Reuters]

Nuclear-armed North Korea showcased more intercontinental ballistic missiles than ever before during a nighttime parade, state media reported on Thursday.

The parade was held in Pyongyang to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of its army, KCNA said according to Reuters.

The country’s leader Kim Jong Un attended the event with his daughter, “who is seen as playing a possible future leadership role in the hereditary dictatorship.”

Imagery obtained by Reuters on the Wednesday night parade showed as many as 11 Hwasong-17s, North Korea’s largest ICBM, which are suspected to be able to strike nearly anywhere in the world with a nuclear warhead.

The Hwasong-17 was first tested last year.

“Alongside them at the parade were what some analysts said could be a prototype or mockup of a new solid-fuel ICBM in canister launchers,” Reuters reports.

The country has forged ahead with its ballistic missile programme, test-launching dozens of advanced missiles last year despite United Nations Security Council resolutions and sanctions.