The statement said:

We warmly congratulate the Korean army and people upon having realized the historic great cause of completing the state nuclear force, the cause of building a rocket power under the wise leadership of respected HE Kim Jong Un.

The DPRK demonstrated its dignity and might once again before the whole world by successfully test-firing the newly-developed ICBM Hwasong-15.

It clearly showed that no force could block the road of Juche Korea advancing toward a powerful socialist country.

We fully support the statement of the DPRK government, convinced that the Korean people, who united close around HE Kim Jong Un, would surely win victory in their struggle for building a powerful socialist nation and achieving reunification of the country, true to the new line of simultaneously developing the two fronts, the eternal banner for defending peace.