With the development of the new ICBM, Kim said North Korea had demonstrated to the world “the confident, ever-victorious future of our state advancing toward the goal of building the world’s strongest army.”

Scientists from North Korea’s Academy of Defense Science recently wrote a letter to Kim saying that a recent test firing constituted a “great historic achievement” for the country and demonstrated North Korea’s sovereignty. The letter was submitted to Kim.

The launch was attended by Kim personally, along with a kid who many assume to be his daughter Ju Ae.

According to Ankit Panda, a senior scholar in the nuclear policy program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Pyongyang also published a video of the missile launch.

This was just the third time that Pyongyang has done so since the beginning of 2017.

Although the test demonstrated that Pyongyang is capable of launching a large intercontinental ballistic missile and keeping it in the air for more than an hour, North Korea has not yet shown that it is able to place a warhead atop a long-range ballistic missile – projectiles that are fired into space – that is able to survive the fiery reentry into the atmosphere of Earth.

However, researchers believe that North Korea is improving its capabilities as it conducts more tests on a regular basis.

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