The Jerusalem Post reports: “North Korea said on Friday it had tested a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the Hwasong-18, to ‘radically promote’ its nuclear counterattack capability, state media said.

Leader Kim Jong Un guided the test, and warned it would make enemies ‘experience a clearer security crisis, and constantly strike extreme uneasiness and horror into them by taking fatal and offensive counter-actions until they abandon their senseless thinking and reckless acts.’

North Korea has criticized recent US-South Korean joint military exercises as escalating tensions and has stepped up weapons tests in the past months…”