Pyongyang dares Washington - says it can wage nuclear war on the United Stsates

North Korea has brought up the subject of nuclear warfare once again - it has said that it has successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic rocket engine from Sohae Space Center in the country's northwest and, armed with it, it now has the ability to stage nuclear strikes on the United States.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 8 April 2016.

In case ground test of the engine has really been carried out, it would be seen as a major step forward for the nuclear weapons program of North Korea - it had conducted its fourth atomic test earlier this year. The North would still require to do much more work before it can actually strike hit the U.S. mainland with nuclear missiles.
South Korea says that North Korea does not, as yet, have a reliable intercontinental ballistic missile - arming it with a nuclear warhead is a far cry.
The United States feels that the test is nothing but North Korean provocations Its launch of a medium-range ballistic missile last month had violated U.N. Security Council resolutions that prohibit any ballistic activities by North Korea.
It was the North's first medium-range missile launch since early 2014.
Incidentally, North Korea has threatened pre-emptive nuclear strikes against Washington and Seoul. It had fired short-range missiles and artillery into the sea. This was in an apparent response to the ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills apart from the tough U.N. sanctions that have been imposed on it over the recent nuclear test and a long-range rocket launch earlier this year.


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