N Korea plans ‘world’s most powerful’ nuke force
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is planning to build "the world's most powerful" nuclear force, state news agency KCNA reported yesterday.
The "ultimate goal" behind North Korea's nuclear program was to possess an "absolute force, unprecedented in the century," Kim said Saturday as part of an order promoting dozens of military officials, the agency reported.
The order comes after what North Korea said was a "test firing of a new kind" of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on November 18.
The missile was a Hwaseong-17, according to KCNA, a huge rocket that is theoretically capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to US mainland.
Kim commended the officials who developed the new missile in his comments.
He called the missile "the world's strongest strategic weapon" and said it represented "a wonderful leap forward in the development of the technology of mounting nuclear warheads on ballistic missiles."
In a letter sent to Kim recently, scientists from North Korea's Academy of Defense Science said the test firing marked a "great historic victory" for the country.
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