The isolated North Korea claimed on Saturday that the country has successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile that has the ability to stage a nuclear attack on the United States.

"Dear Comrade, now we can mount an ever more powerful nuclear warhead on a new intercontinental ballistic rocket and put the den of evil in the United States and all over the world within our strike range," supreme leader Kim Jong-un said through the Official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

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The news agency further said that Kim was enchanted as ballistic missiles spewed out with a deafening boom during the test launch.

"The great success... provided a firm guarantee for mounting another form of nuclear attack upon the US imperialists and other hostile forces," Kim said. 

Kim added that the North can now tip intercontinental ballistic missiles with powerful nuclear warheads that could keep the U.S within striking distance and "reduce them to ashes so that they may not survive in our planet."

The military tensions on the divided Korean peninsula has been heightened after a defiant North Korea went ahead with its nuclear test and long-range rocket launches this year. The United Nations' Security Council unanimously approved the toughest sanctions against this country in March 2016.

Terming the news of testing ballistic missile as a provocation, the State Department spokesman in Washington DC Mark Toner called on North Korea to "refrain from actions and rhetoric that further destabilise the region and focus instead on taking concrete steps toward fulfilling its commitments and international obligations."

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