North Korea said Friday that its latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch was intended to send a 'stronger warning' over combined U.S. military exercises with South Korea, blaming those for creating a 'most unstable security environment' in the region.
North Korea said Friday that its latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch was intended to send a "stronger warning" over combined U.S. military exercises with South Korea, blaming those for creating a "most unstable security environment" in the region.
North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test-firing of the Hwasong-17 ICBM from Pyongyang's international airport and stressed the need to "strike fear into the enemies" over what it called the "open hostility" shown to the North by the large-scale exercises.
KCNA said the ICBM launch drill sends a "stronger warning" to its rivals who are escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula with their "frantic, provocative and aggressive large-scale war drills." The test also was designed to confirm the reliability of the weapons system, the agency said. The summit comes after Yoon's government took a major step toward improving bilateral ties strained by historical grievances. It announced plans last week to use local funds to compensate Koreans who had won damages in court against Japanese companies that enslaved them before the end of World War II.
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