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Kim Jong-un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, took a commemorative photo with those who successfully test-fired an ICBM-class missile.
General Secretary Kim said that he would further accelerate the development of nuclear war deterrence.
Correspondent Hong Young-jae.
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] Kim Jong-un, general secretary of the North Korean Workers' Party, said that the true defense power is a powerful offensive capability, and emphasized that the country's nuclear war deterrence capability should be more accelerated, the Rodong Sinmun reported.
General Secretary Kim Jong-un said this at a commemorative photo session with workers, scientists and technicians in the defense industry who contributed to the success of the test-fire of the new ICBM-class Hwasong-17 missile.
General Secretary Kim said that the North Korean military will develop more powerful means of attack and have an overwhelming military power that cannot be stopped.
He also said that the development of national defense would not have been possible without the people who absolutely supported the task of strengthening the country's nuclear war deterrence, he said.
The Rodong Sinmun introduced the people who took part in the commemorative photo shoot and gave significance to the development of the Hwasong-17 by revealing that it had completed the core nuclear attack method representing North Korea's strategic armed forces.
However, it is known that the South Korean and US military authorities see the missile launched by North Korea on the 24th as the existing Hwasong-15, not the new ICBM, Hwasong-17.