SEOUL – Two days after the launch of a missile which North Korea claims puts the ‘whole US mainland’ in reach, its leader Kim Jong Un and wife held a banquet on Sunday (July 30) for officials and scientists behind the July 28 missile test..
SEOUL – Two days after the launch of a missile which North Korea claims puts the ‘whole US mainland’ in reach, its leader Kim Jong Un and wife held a banquet on Sunday (July 30) for officials and scientists behind the July 28 missile test.
The guests of honour at Sunday’s banquet included Ri Man Gon, vice chairman of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea’s central committee, and Kim Rak Gyon, commander of the Strategic Force, which is in charge of missile operations, according to North Korea’s state agency Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) .
“The great success in the second test-fire of the Hwasong-14 … has established a new world political structure with socialist Korea as its axis, ” said Ri in comments carried by Yonhap news agency.
He also stressed the need to “ceaselessly produce new types of ballistic rockets with high mobility and striking power … (and) make a series of successes in the field of defence scientific research capable of overtaking the world in the air, on the seas and under water, ” according to the KCNA report.
