North Korea unveiled a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) during a military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square, with leader Kim Jong Un and senior officials from China and Russia in attendance, state-run media reported Saturday.
Kim used the event marking the 80th founding anniversary of the North's ruling Workers' Party of Korea late Friday to showcase the next-generation Hwasong-20 ICBM, which the North's official Korean Central News Agency called "the most powerful nuclear strategic weapon."
"The spectators broke into the most enthusiastic cheers when the column of Hwasongpho-20 ICBMs, the most powerful nuclear strategic weapon system of the DPRK, entered the square, filling the track," the KCNA report said, using the acronym for the North's formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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