SpaceWar.com reports: “North Korea successfully test-fired its new Hwasong-19 intercontinental ballistic missile, state-run media reported Friday, with leader Kim Jong Un claiming the regime has secured an ‘irreversible’ means of delivering nuclear weapons.

Kim said the launch demonstrated the missile’s ‘matchless strategic nuclear attack capability before the world,’ according to a report in the official Korean Central News Agency.

The Hwasong-19, which was fired on Thursday, flew for 86 minutes and reached an altitude of 4,776 miles, KCNA said — both records for a North Korean missile.

‘The test of the latest strategic weapon system updated the recent records of the strategic missile capability of the DPRK and demonstrated the modernity and credibility of its world’s most powerful strategic deterrent,’ the KCNA report said…”