North Korea said Friday it test-fired its biggest-yet intercontinental ballistic missile under the orders of leader Kim Jong Un.
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea said Friday it test-fired its biggest-yet intercontinental ballistic missile under the orders of leader Kim Jong Un, who vowed to expand the North's"nuclear war deterrent" while preparing for a"long-standing confrontation" with the United States.
The Hwasong-17, which was fired at a high angle to avoid the territorial waters of neighbors, reached a maximum altitude of 6,248 kilometers and traveled 1,090 kilometers during a 67-minute flight before landing in waters between North Korea and Japan, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said.
KCNA paraphrased Kim as saying that his new weapon would make the"whole world clearly aware" of the North's bolstered nuclear forces. He vowed for his military to acquire"formidable military and technical capabilities unperturbed by any military threat and blackmail and keep themselves fully ready for long-standing confrontation with the U.S. imperialists."
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin held separate telephone conversations with his counterparts in South Korea and Japan where they discussed response measures to North Korean missile activities and vowed to strengthen defense cooperation, according to U.S. Defense Department statements. The United States also imposed fresh sanctions against five entities and individuals in Russia and North Korea over transferring sensitive items to the North's missile program, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said.
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