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At the same time, North Korea published an article on the long-range missile Mars 14, which had been tested and fired three years ago, from the front page to the front page. You can also read it as the phrase "you can shoot this missile again".

Reporter Park Ha-jung.

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[Chosun Central TV: Fired vigorously with a lava-like pillar of fire.]

Three years ago, North Korea launched a Hwaseong-14-type missile in Banghyeon, North Pyongan Province.

At that time, the maximum angle of launch was raised to 933 km, but when fired normally, the range is estimated to be over 10,000 km, threatening the western United States.

Three years later, the North Korean labor newspaper focused on the Hwaseong-14 type.

Featured articles from the front page editorial to the entire 2nd and 3rd page.

[Chosun Central TV: On the 4th of July, which is held as a meaningful day in the hearts of the people, let Juche's tremendous national power spread throughout the world… When

he pointed to the launch day and called it the '7·4 Revolution', he wrote, "You must be strong enough to protect your country."

[Yang Moo-Jin/Professor, North Korea Graduate School: It seems that the indirect message is that if the US does not abandon its hostile policies toward North Korea, it will go back to upgrading its nuclear capabilities.]

It is the first time in the media that North Korea, which had transitioned to negotiations in 2018 after the declaration of nuclear weapons completion in late 2017, focused on launching ICBM-class missiles.

It is also interpreted that North Korea's perception that nuclear power is their own bargaining power.

(Video editing: Park Ki-duk)