PYONGYANG, April 26 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday dismissed criticism from the international community for its test-firing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile.
The DPRK's successful test-fire of the SLBM was "the exercise of the just right to self-defence to safeguard the sovereignty and the country's right to exist" as well as from "the U.S.'s escalating threat of nuclear war," a spokesman for the foreign ministry was quoted by the state-run news agency KCNA as saying.
The DPRK announced Sunday that it had conducted a successful underwater test-fire of a strategic submarine ballistic missile; it added that the country's top leader Kim Jong Un guided the test.
This was the second time the DPRK's state-run media had announced the success of a SLBM test-fire since May 9, 2015 when the KCNA reported that Kim watched the testing of a newly developed SLBM.
The latest launch has provoked worldwide condemnation. Pyongyang has been accused of developing ballistic missile technology which is banned under several UN Security Council resolutions against the country.
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