North Korean missiles will be able to reach US after modernization: Ifax cites Russian lawmaker

Ballistic missile has a range of 3,000 kilometres (1864.11 miles), North Korea’s leadership told Russian lawmakers

Reuters

Published October 10, 2017

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the Second Plenum of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang October 8, 2017. Photo: Reuters File

MOSCOW: North Korea’s leadership has told Russian lawmakers that it possesses a ballistic missile with a range of 3,000 kilometres (1864.11 miles) that will be able to reach US territory after modernisation, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday.

Interfax cited Anton Morozov, a lawmaker and member of the lower house of parliament’s international affairs committee, who visited Pyongyang from October 2-6.

North Korea aims to increase the range of its ballistic missiles to 9,000 kilometres (5592.34 miles), Morozov was quoted as saying. “There was no talk about the deadline (for solving this task),” he said.