SEOUL/WASHINGTON: North Korea mentioned on Wednesday it had successfully tested a brand new type of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that could achieve the entire US mainland.
The missile check, North Korea's first since mid-September, got here a week after US President Donald Trump put North Korea again on a US list of countries it says improve terrorism, allowing it to impose extra sanctions.
North Korea has carried out dozens of ballistic missile checks under its chief, Kim Jong Un, in defiance of international sanctions. Trump has vowed not to let North Korea broaden nuclear missiles that can hit the mainland United States.
In a published on state TV, North Korea mentioned the new powerful missile reached an altitude of around four,475 km (2,780 miles) - greater than 10 occasions the height of the international house station - and flew 950 km (600 miles) all through its 53 minute flight.
After gazing the a success launch of the new kind ICBM Hwasong-15, Kim Jong Un declared with pleasure that now we've in any case learned the good ancient reason behind completing the state nuclear drive, the reason for building a rocket power, in keeping with a observation learn by a tv presenter.
In the observation North Korea described itself as a "responsible nuclear power", but warned its strategic guns had been advanced to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity from "the U.S. imperialists' nuclear blackmail policy and nuclear threat".
U.S., Japanese and South Korean officers all agreed the missile, which landed inside of Japan's unique economic zone within the Sea of Japan, was once most probably an ICBM nevertheless it didn't pose a danger to the United States, its territories or allies, the Pentagon mentioned.
"It went higher frankly than any previous shot they've taken, a research and development effort on their part to continue building ballistic missiles that can threaten everywhere in the world, basically," U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis informed journalists at the White House.
The missile check, North Korea's first since mid-September, got here a week after US President Donald Trump put North Korea again on a US list of countries it says improve terrorism, allowing it to impose extra sanctions.
North Korea has carried out dozens of ballistic missile checks under its chief, Kim Jong Un, in defiance of international sanctions. Trump has vowed not to let North Korea broaden nuclear missiles that can hit the mainland United States.
In a published on state TV, North Korea mentioned the new powerful missile reached an altitude of around four,475 km (2,780 miles) - greater than 10 occasions the height of the international house station - and flew 950 km (600 miles) all through its 53 minute flight.
After gazing the a success launch of the new kind ICBM Hwasong-15, Kim Jong Un declared with pleasure that now we've in any case learned the good ancient reason behind completing the state nuclear drive, the reason for building a rocket power, in keeping with a observation learn by a tv presenter.
In the observation North Korea described itself as a "responsible nuclear power", but warned its strategic guns had been advanced to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity from "the U.S. imperialists' nuclear blackmail policy and nuclear threat".
U.S., Japanese and South Korean officers all agreed the missile, which landed inside of Japan's unique economic zone within the Sea of Japan, was once most probably an ICBM nevertheless it didn't pose a danger to the United States, its territories or allies, the Pentagon mentioned.
"It went higher frankly than any previous shot they've taken, a research and development effort on their part to continue building ballistic missiles that can threaten everywhere in the world, basically," U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis informed journalists at the White House.
North Korea says tests new ICBM, can reach all US mainland
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