Latin American Herald Tribune:
SEOUL – North Korea said on Wednesday it is ready to test launch intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), one day after the United States successfully tested a defense system to intercept such projectiles.
The North Korean army is ready to conduct a real ICBM test at any time and place if ordered by its leader Kim Jong-un, according to an article in the Rodong Sinmun, the official daily of the country’s ruling Workers’ Party.
In his New Year address to the nation, Kim said the country was in the final phase of developing an ICBM that would allow it to target the US with a nuclear weapon in the future, with the aim of aiding the survival of the communist regime.
In the editorial cited by state news agency KCNA, which also includes Pyongyang’s analysis of the US test, the North said no foreign forces could stop its progress in becoming a nuclear and missile power in the East…
