North Korea Says It Tested New Solid-Fuel ICBM to Strike US.

"Kim wants to maximize this opportunity to compel the US and the international community into accepting his country as a nuclear weapons state", said Soo Kim, a former Korea analyst at the CIA who is now a policy practice area lead at US-based management consulting firm LMI. (Bloomberg) -- North Korea said it tested a new type of solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile that could deliver multiple nuclear warheads to the US mainland, with leader Kim Jong Un on hand to see the launch of his latest weapon. [Extracted from the article]