North Korea Sets Out To Test Two New Long Range Missiles

North Korea has built and prepared for its launch two intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), according to local sources Seoul Defense sources said today, adding that Pyongyang could test the missiles in the short term.

South Korean intelligence services have images showing two missiles on their launch pads, which were captured by US radar earlier this week, they explained the sources cited quoted by South Korean media.

Kim Jong-un's regime would have prepared its new long-range weapons to send a "strategic message" to the imminent takeover of US President-elect Donald Trump, defense sources told Yonhap news agency.

The information comes to light after early January North Korea ensure that can perform a test ICBM "anytime and anywhere", and blamed the United States assumed "a nuclear threat increasingly perverse".

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un also said in his New Year message that North Korean intercontinental experimental missiles were in the "final phase" of its development.

Also, the state agency KCNA reported on the young dictator's first inspection of the year to the North Korean troops, whom he called to be "always prepared to take action and think only in combat."

According to the latest intelligence, the new ICBM developed by the North are less than 15 meters in length, below its other two models of such missiles, KN-08 and KN-14.

Experts believe that the hermetic regime is currently capable of launching a missile with a range of about 2,500 kilometers, but believes that it still has several years to develop and have operational missiles with the minimum range to be considered intercontinental (5,500 kilometers).

The last time North Korea conducted a test of a long-range missile was on February 7, 2016, which attached to a nuclear test a month earlier led the UN imposed strict sanctions on Pyongyang.

Analysts consider it very likely that the Juché regime will carry out new arms tests earlier this year to boost the development of its missile and nuclear weapons program.