In this regard, KCNA met Kim Kon Chol, department director of the Ministry of Railways, under a large electronic display in front of Pyongyang Railway Station.

Kim said:

The exciting peal of ICBM test-fire is a clear answer of the DPRK army and people to the U.S. that re-listed the DPRK as a "sponsor of terrorism", and is an echo of jubilation that guarantees the sounds of creation and construction and happy laughter reverberating across the country.

And it comes to be a stern warning to the arrogant U.S. with its averted face to the strategic position of Juche-oriented nuclear power.

The U.S. should keep in mind that the initiative in bringing about changes in the situation and the treasured sword for preserving peace and stability are seized by the DPRK, the possessor of the strategic weapons of justice.

Kim Song Won, dean of a faculty of Kim Chaek University of Technology, said:

The successful test-fire of new-type ICBM Hwasong -15 showed all over the world the might of the DPRK as a world-level military power.

At a time when the U.S. was making a foolish daydream that its harsh sanction might wring our windpipe, we have possessed of another new-type powerful ICBM weaponry system that frightened our enemies.

This is a great event that showed to the world again the validity and vitality of the line of simultaneously pushing forward the economic construction and the building of nuclear force set forth by the Workers' Party of Korea.

As long as we are led by respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, the DPRK army and people will, in the future, too, bolster the self-defensive war deterrent in every way under the uplifted banner of the line of simultaneously developing the two fronts.