North Korea, equipped with nuclear weapons, has “the most powerful strategic force in the world,” leader Kim Jong-un said at a ceremony to celebrate the launch of a new intercontinental missile.
Kim has given a series of promotions to military personnel and scientists involved in the development of the new Hwasong-17, dubbed a “monster missile” by military analysts, capable of attacking the United States. This intercontinental ballistic missile was tested on November 18, crashing in waters off Japan.
The Hwasong-17 is “the world’s most powerful strategic weapon” and represents “a magnificent leap forward in the development of technology for mounting nuclear warheads on ballistic missiles,” the leader was quoted as saying today by the official North Korean news agency KCNA.
Scientists, military and those responsible for this program contributed to the “goal of building the strongest army in the world,” he added.
It is “the biggest and most important revolutionary cause, and its ultimate goal is to possess the most powerful strategic force in the world, the absolute force unprecedented in the century,” he stressed.
Hong Min of the Korean Institute for National Unification said Pyongyang’s emphasis in launching the Hwasong-17 test was aimed at bolstering its status as a nuclear power.
Source: TSF
