In this regard, Han Un Hui, a writer of the C.C., of the Writers Union of Korea, told KCNA:

With the possession of intercontinental ballistic rocket as well as A-bomb and H-bomb, the DPRK reached a higher level in its overall strength and strategic position.

Seeing with great joy the televised test-fire of Hwasong-14 capable of hitting the U.S. mainland, I feel the pride of being a citizen of a full-fledged nuclear power that possesses intercontinental ballistic rocket.

Indeed, the great success in the test-fire is a demonstration of the dignity and inexhaustible power of the great Paektusan nation that regards independence as its life and soul, and another victory in the showdown with the imperialists and the U.S.

My country is, in fact, a fortress of anti-imperialist independence, a fortress of socialism that no formidable enemy dares provoke, as it is the one and only country that distresses the U.S. which any country in the world dare not castigate though condemning its high-handed and arbitrary practices.

My country will never step back even an inch from bolstering its nuclear force unless the U.S. hostile policy and nuclear threat to the DPRK are definitely terminated. And the world will clearly see how strong pluck and grit it has.

Mun Chol, first secretary of the Pyongyang City Committee of the Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist Youth League, said:

It comes to a telling blow to the U.S. that the DPRK succeeded in the test-fire of intercontinental ballistic rocket.

I seem to see the wretched appearance of the U.S. shocked by the test-fire.

With a pride of living in the country with powerful nukes and armed forces, we will do our best to add glory to the Mallima era by performing fresh feats.