North Korean chief Kim Jong Un stated his nation’s final aim is to own the world’s strongest nuclear drive, as he promoted dozens of army officers concerned within the latest launch of North Korea’s largest ballistic missile, state media reported on Sunday.

The announcement comes after Kim inspected a check of the nation’s new Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), and pledged to counter U.S. nuclear threats with nuclear weapons on Nov. 18.

Constructing the nuclear drive is for reliably defending the dignity and sovereignty of the state and the individuals, and “its final aim is to own the world’s strongest strategic drive, absolutely the drive unprecedented within the century,” Kim stated within the order selling the officers.

He referred to as the Hwasong-17 the “world’s strongest strategic weapon” and stated it demonstrated North Korea’s resolve and skill to ultimately construct the world’s strongest military.

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North Korean scientists have made a “great leap ahead within the improvement of the expertise of mounting nuclear warheads on ballistic missiles,” Kim stated, with out elaborating.

Posing for photographs with the scientists, engineers, army officers and others concerned within the check, Kim stated he expects them to proceed to increase and strengthen the nation’s nuclear deterrent at a very fast tempo.

These staff issued an oath of allegiance and religion to the ruling celebration, vowing to defend the “absolute authority” of the celebration and Kim, and vowing that “our missiles will fly vigorously solely within the path indicated” by him.

They stated Kim had “fastidiously taught us one after the other” in the course of the improvement of the Hwasong-17.

Able to reaching the U.S. mainland, the missile launch prompted the US to name for a United Nations Safety Council presidential assertion to carry North Korea accountable for its missile assessments, that are banned by Safety Council resolutions.

North Korea’s highly effective Standing Committee of the Supreme Folks’s Meeting awarded the Hwasong-17 missile the title of “DPRK Hero and Gold Star Medal and Order of Nationwide Flag 1st Class”, KCNA reported in one other assertion, utilizing the initials of the nation’s official title, Democratic Folks’s Republic of Korea.

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“(The missile) clearly proved earlier than the world that the DPRK is a full-fledged nuclear energy able to standing in opposition to the nuclear supremacy of the U.S. imperialists and totally demonstrated its would possibly as probably the most highly effective ICBM state,” KCNA stated.

The check fireplace demonstrated that North Korea will react in variety to “the enemy’s nuke and full-frontal confrontation,” the report stated.