Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held their first direct talks in six years after a massive military parade in Beijing commemorating 80 years since the end of China's war against Imperial Japan.

Robotic wolves rode on armoured vehicles. Alongside them stealth drones, unmanned submarines, and giant lasers for blinding pilots, accompanied by the lethal triad of air, sea and land-launched nuclear missiles made for a daunting array of Chinese military hardware on show this week in Beijing as it commemorated the 80th anniversary of end of the