Rodong Sinmun on Friday observes in a commentary in this regard:

It is a righteous self-defensive measure for the DPRK to test-launch its ICBM as part of its measures for bolstering up the military capability to cope with the U.S. daily-increasing threat of nuclear war. Therefore, no one can find fault with this.

The U.S. is wholly to blame for pushing the DPRK to developing ICBM as it has desperately pursued its anachronistic policy hostile toward the DPRK for decades to encroach upon its sovereignty and vital rights.

The U.S. is not entitled to grumble about the DPRK's test-fire of inter-continental ballistic racket, to say nothing of more powerful weapons, to react to its nuclear blackmail.

The DPRK, a responsible nuclear weapons state, will never remain a passive onlooker to the daily-increasing nuclear war danger on the Korean peninsula. It will redouble its efforts to put an end to the source of nuclear threat and blackmail.

Its test-launch of ICBM is part of a series of measures for bolstering up the self-defensive military capability to cope with the U.S. daily-increasing nuclear war threat.

No matter what others may say, ICBM will be launched anytime and anywhere determined by the supreme leadership of the DPRK.