North Korea ready to test ICBM ‘any time,’ official says

A senior North Korean official said the isolated country is ready to test an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) “at any time, at any place,” NBC News reported on Wednesday.

Choe Kang Il, deputy director general for North American affairs at North Korea’s foreign ministry, told NBC News that the expansion of Pyongyang’s nuclear program is “defensive in nature.”

“Our measures to bolster our nuclear arsenal are all defensive in nature — to defend our sovereignty and to cope with the persistent nuclear blackmail and threats by the United States against our country,” he said.

 

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