Following a test of the Hwasong-14 missile, North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un said in a statement that “we have demonstrated our ability to fire our intercontinental ballistic rocket at any time and place and that the entire U.S. territory is within our shooting range.”
According to the Korean Central News Agency, Kim Jong-un expressed his “great satisfaction” with the ICBM test that was the second North Korean ICBM test after an earlier test on July 4. The test was allegedly aimed at reaffirming that the missile was able to deliver a “large-sized, heavy nuclear warhead.”