U.S. Mainland in Our Missile Range, Warns North Korea

In the aftermath of the American missile deal with South Korea, the communist country of North Korea warned that it has missiles that can reach the American mainland.

Washington recently struck a deal with Seoul on extending the range of South Korea's ballistic missiles to help it hit all of the North and to stand in parity with the North Korean missile and nuclear threats.

According to an earlier agreement with the U.S., South Korea was restricted to missiles with a range of 300km (186) miles. The latest deal will sanction the country to develop missile which can reach up to 800km.

Stating that the new missile deal will increase the risk of war on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea warned that U.S. bases in "Japan, Guam and the U.S. mainland" are well within its missile range.

"We do not hide that the revolutionary armed forces including the strategic rocket forces are keeping within the scope of strike not only the bases of the puppet forces and the U.S. imperialist aggression forces' bases in the inviolable land of Korea, but also Japan, Guam and the U.S. mainland," a spokesman at the North's National Defense Commission said in a statement.

Though Pyongyang has frequently issued serious rhetoric against South Korea and the U.S., the latest warning of missiles that can reach the American mainland is something unusual from the Kims ruled country.

Despite the failure of its two rocket tests, Pyongyang is believed to be working on a long-range missile; however, political observers are of the opinion that the missile intended to put the U.S. mainland within the striking range are yet to have tested successfully.