Pyongyang, Feb. 19.- The Central Military Commission of the Labor Party of Korea today assessed actual combat capability after the launch of an ICBM.
The General Directorate of Missiles led the exercise with heroin company Bandera Roja Numero Uno, an operational unit responsible for launching a new type and better capacity “Hwasongpho-15”.
The training was organized at dawn on the written order of the head of the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Kim Jong Un.
According to the military command, the aim of the surprise exercise was to reconfirm the reliability of this weapon system and to demonstrate the combat readiness of the nuclear armed forces of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
He also pledged to demonstrate the safety and ensure proper mobility, responsiveness, reliability, effectiveness and combat capability of state nuclear deterrent components.
The company launched from Pyongyang International Airport the device of the type “Hwasongpho-15” in the form of maximum firing range and high angle.
According to the source, the missile covered a distance of 989 kilometers in 4,015 seconds, with a maximum altitude of 5,768 meters, with a precise target at sea defined in the East Korean Sea.
The Central Military Commission rated the launch as excellent in preparation for the military environment being created on the Korean Peninsula and the serious military threat posed by the United States.
DPRK’s core strategic forces insist on guaranteeing nuclear counterstrike capability against enemy forces as a guarantee and demonstration of powerful physical nuclear deterrence.
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