North Korea state media celebrates 'gift' to 'American bastards'

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/05/asia/north-korea-missile-nuclear-gift/index.html

(CNN)North Korean state media is lauding what the country's leader Kim Jong Un has called a "package of gifts" for "American bastards" on their July 4 Independence Day holiday.

State media said Kim supervised the launch of Pyongyang's first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Tuesday, which it says is powerful enough to reach the US mainland.

"With a broad smile on his face," Kim called on officials to "frequently send big and small 'gift packages' to the Yankees," KCNA reported, as it listed the technical successes of the rocket, identified by the North Koreans as a Hwasong-14.

The report said the missile was able to carry a "large-sized heavy nuclear warhead," and despite "extreme overload and vibration the nuclear warhead detonation control device successfully worked."

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