N Korea likely getting ready for new ICBM test: South Korean military
Tehran (KNA) - The South Korean military says the North appears to be getting ready for another missile launch, possibly an Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test, a day after Pyongyang detonated a hydrogen bomb, which is said to be the most powerful weapon it has ever tested.
"We have continued to see signs of possibly more ballistic missile launches. We also forecast North Korea could fire an intercontinental ballistic missile," said Chang Kyung-soo, a Defense Ministry official, on Monday.
Seoul's defense officials told a parliamentary briefing that Pyongyang's nuclear test a day earlier had an estimated strength of 50 kilotons, making it five times the size of its previous test in September 2016.
The bomb was also some three times more powerful than the US device that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
Earlier in the day, the South conducted a live-fire ballistic missile exercise, simulating an attack on the North's main nuclear site.
source: Press TV