Developing long-range missiles ‘in final stages’: North Korea leader Kim Jong Un

Pyongyang has also carried out five nuclear tests – three of them since Kim Jong-un succeeded his late father, and most recently last September.

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The president-elect – who has yet to articulate his incoming administration’s approach to North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme – also took another swipe at China, accusing Beijing of failing to rein in the North’s nuclear ambitions.

His remarks boosted speculation the communist state may test the KN-08 ICBM, thought to be capable of flying up to 13,000 kilometers.

Such a test carried out under a new United States administration could present a serious trial for Mr Trump, who has not publicly indicated how he might respond to such a threat and has suggested that he favoured reducing defence assistance for USA allies such as South Korea. We will defend peace and security of our state at all costs and by our own efforts, and make a positive contribution to safeguarding global peace and stability.

“2016 marked the year North Korea truly ramped up their WD programme”.

“Basically, he will be sending a message that North Korea is a nuclear power, that the world needs to take Pyongyang seriously, and that it needs to be included in any thinking about security in northeast Asia”, he told DW. It’s final major test was the failed launch of a Hwasong-10 during the final USA presidential debate in late-October. With North Korea announcing jet testing of a high-output engine for a new intercontinental ballistic rocket in March 2016, some are raising the possibility the missile might be a new model with that engine.

Lusty Kim has already ordered his top scientists to develop a new sex potion for North Korean men.

Some of Kim’s rhetoric was very familiar, such as warning of a push to “keep increasing military capabilities” if South Korea and its military ally the US continue their regular war drills this year. -South Korea exercises must stop.

President-elect Donald Trump is taking a dig at Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s mayor and President Barack Obama’s former chief of staff.

Trump’s many detractors during the campaign, including numerous Republican foreign policy and military experts, have said Trump did not have the knowledge or temperament to serve as commander in chief.

Trump tweeted Monday evening that this “won’t happen”.

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Trump has not outlined a policy on North Korea but during the USA election campaign indicated he would be willing to talk its leader, Kim, given the opportunity.