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North Korea Celebrates Missile Launch With Huge Firework Display

Army personnel and people gather at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang July 6, 2017 to celebrate the successful test-launch of intercontinental ballistic rocket Hwasong-14. in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang July 7, 2017. KCNA/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT.? TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Thousands of North Koreans celebrated their nation’s first intercontinental missile launch.

Huge crowds were pictured at a rally in Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang to celebrate the ballistic missile with a huge firework display.

The rally Thursday was held along the Taedonggang, a river that runs through the capital.

North Korea’s state media have been running daily reports hailing the launch, which was supervised by leader Kim Jong Un and timed to coincide with the Independence Day holiday in the United States.

The successful test launch of the missile, called the Hwasong 14, is a major milestone in North Korea’s long-term effort to build a missile that could carry a nuclear warhead to attack the United States.

North Korea often stages rallies in the square to mark events that it wants to underscore as particularly significant.

A similar rally was held last month on the anniversary of the beginning of the 1950-53 Korean War.

Yesterday, during a visit to Poland, US President Donald Trump warned that North Korea’s ‘very, very bad behaviour’ would be ‘confronted strongly’.

Trump said that he’s considering unspecified ‘pretty severe things’ in response to the North’s ICBM launch.

While a pre-emptive military strike may be among Trump’s potential options, analysts say it’s one of the unlikeliest because the North Korean retaliation would cause massive casualties in South Korea, particularly in Seoul, which is within easy range of North Korea’s artillery.

 

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