Jo Il Yon, chairman of the Tokyo Metropolitan Headquarters of Chongryon, said that the news is instilling high national pride into the officials of the headquarters and all other Koreans in Japan.

The successful test-fire is a historic victory as it showed the rapid development of heroic Korea's Juche-based rocket industry and its inexhaustible potentials, Jo said.

Pak Yong Chi, chairman of the Higashinari branch of the Chongryon Osaka Prefectural Headquarters, said it is a great event in the history of the Korean nation as it clearly showed how fast the DPRK is making a great leap forward in the face of the unheard-of political blackmail and economic blockade by the U.S. imperialists and their vassal forces.

He hardened the will to further consolidate the branch into a reliable, patriotic organization which remains unfazed in any storm and stress.