N. Korea hinted it may test-fire an ICBM in the near future, state media says, adding that the missile will help Pyongyang tackle the US’ “hostile policy, ” as Washington never “dared to go to war with a country that possesses nuclear weapons or ICBMs.”
“ The series of recent strategic weapons tests show that we are not too far away from test-firing an intercontinental ballistic missile, ” North Korean Rodong Sinmun official newspaper said, according to South Korean media.
According to the Pyongyang paper, the great success of test-firing an ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) “ will mark a historic watershed moment in the failure of the US hostile policy .”
“ Historically speaking, the US has never dared to go to war with a country that possesses nuclear weapons or ICBMs, ” it added.
The US also forecasts that Pyongyang may test-fire the missile in 2017. “ They made further progress in their ability to develop re-entry vehicles in their last test… The pace of the threat is advancing faster than I think was considered when we did the first ballistic missile defense review back in 2010, ” Robert Soofer from Defense for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy told Japanese-language Kyodo News, as cited by Yonhap.
