Unic Press UK: Wednesday defiant communist state North Korea test fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), recording a remarkable success and rattling state actors after the ICBM flew higher and stayed much longer than all previous launches having made a 53-minute flight along its preset orbit before landing in the open sea in the East Sea of Korea.
“The rocket soared to the highest altitude of 4 475 km and then flew the distance of 950 km”, North Korea’s state news agency KCNA reported.
In a statement issued on 29th November 2017 shortly after successful test-firing a new-type of ICBM, the North Korean government said:
“The ICBM Hwasong-15 type weaponry system is an intercontinental ballistic rocket tipped with super-large heavy warhead which is capable of striking the whole mainland of the U.S… and it is the most powerful ICBM which meets the goal of the completion of the rocket weaponry system development set by the DPRK. Upon authorization of the WPK and the government of the DPRK, ICBM Hwasong-15 was launched at 02:48 on Nov. 29, Juche 106 (2017) in the suburbs of Pyongyang under the guidance of Comrade Kim Jong Un… The test-fire was conducted in the highest angle launch system and it had no adverse effect on the security of neighboring countries.”
North Korea has made perceptible strides in its development of nuclear weapons. In 2016, Pyongyang carried out its fourth and fifth nuclear tests, recording successful detonations on each occasion. On 3rd September 2017, the communist State successfully executed its sixth nuclear test, which is said to be five times more powerful than the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki by the US.
The North Korean government August 2017 threatened to make “an enveloping fire in the areas around Guam with medium-to-long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 in order to contain the U.S. major military bases on Guam”, in response to what the communist state described as a series of U.S. aggression, viz:
- Test-firing ICBM Minuteman-3 at its Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
- Mobilizing the nuclear strategic bombers currently stationed at its Anderson Air Force Base on Guam in the Pacific.
- Staging a mock nuclear strike drill targeting the strategic resources of North Korea.
Reacting to the ICBM launched Tuesday by the North Korean military, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said:
“North Korea’s behavior has become more intolerable. The dictator of North Korea made a choice yesterday that brings the world closer to war, not farther from it. We have never sought war with North Korea, and still today we do not seek it. If war does come, it will be because of continued acts of aggression like we witnessed yesterday. And if war comes, make no mistake, the North Korean regime will be utterly destroyed.”
The United States Defense Secretary James Mattis said that this new ICBM had the ability to hit “everywhere in the world.”
On Twitter, the U.S. president Donald Trump vowed to impose more sanctions on North Korea.
Just spoke to President XI JINPING of China concerning the provocative actions of North Korea. Additional major sanctions will be imposed on North Korea today. This situation will be handled!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2017
