North Korea says it launched ICBM to warn US, South Korea over drills

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SEOUL: North Korea said that the missile it launched on Thursday (Mar 16) was a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), fired during a drill to demonstrate a 'tough response posture' to ongoi

North Korea said that the missile it launched on Thursday was a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile , fired during a drill to demonstrate a"tough response posture" toPhotos released on Friday by the country's government media showed Kim Jong Un watching the launch with his daughter, and included pictures from space apparently shot by a camera mounted on the missile.

"The launching drill of the strategic weapon serves as an occasion to give a stronger warning to the enemies intentionally escalating the tension in the Korean peninsula while persistently resorting to irresponsible and reckless military threats," state news agency KCNA said. South Korean and American forces began 11 days of joint drills, dubbed Freedom Shield 23, on Monday, held on a scale not seen since 2017 to counter the North's growing threats.He"stressed the need to strike fear into the enemies, really deter war and reliably guarantee the peaceful life of our people and their struggle for socialist construction by irreversibly bolstering up the nuclear war deterrent", KCNA reported.

The Hwasong-17 is North Korea's biggest missile yet, and is the largest road-mobile, liquid-fuelled ICBM in the world.

 

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