North Korea marked its newly established Missile Industry Day on Saturday with silence in state-run media, as leader Kim Jong Un has remained out of the public spotlight for nearly a month.
The new holiday to commemorate the Nov. 18 launch last year of its massive Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile was announced earlier this month and Pyongyang had been expected to fete the occasion with a missile test or celebration.
The Hwasong-17 is one of the North¡¯s most powerful weapons, with Japan¡¯s Defense Ministry estimating it could deliver a nuclear bomb ¡ª and potentially multiple warheads ¡ª more than 15,000 kilometers, putting all of the U.S. within striking distance.
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