Off the wire
• Scientists stress interventions to contain Africa's armyworm invasion  • Singapore firm buys Manchester hotel popular with football stars  • Syngenta's shareholders accept ChemChina merger offer  • Interest rate cap law to hurt Kenya's economic growth: IMF  • Kenya to roll out literacy strategy to boost capital markets penetration  • China defeat Senegal 65-36 in women's basketball warm-up  • U.S. defense secretary to visit Lithuania  • U.S. stocks open mostly higher after strong jobs report  • Eight new geological sites become UNESCO Global Geoparks  • Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra premieres in Australia  
You are here: 　 Home

DPRK condemns U.S. test launch of ICBM

Xinhua, May 5, 2017 Adjust font size:

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Friday condemned the U.S. test launch of an inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) earlier this week.

The test-fire of an ICBM on May 3 followed an earlier one on April 26 "at a time when the situation on the Korean Peninsula has reached an extremely dangerous phase due to the largest-ever joint military drills" between the South Korea and the United States, the official Korean Central News Agency quoted a DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying.

"The U.S. claims the two ICBM test-fires conducted just in a little over one week were planned one year ago and they have nothing to do with the DPRK's nuclear and long-range ballistic missile launch, but many world media are concerned that the consecutive ICBM tests by the U.S. can push the acute situation on the Korean Peninsula to a graver phase," said the spokesman.

"The U.S. maintains it may carry out missile launches but the DPRK can not and that its launches are a 'contribution' to peace and security while the DPRK's are a 'provocation' straining tension. This sophism is the height of double-dealing standards," he said.

For the second time in a week, the U.S. Air Force test launched another unarmed ICBM capable of carrying a nuclear warhead from an air base in California Wednesday morning. The DPRK describes the test launch as a simulation strike against it. Endi