Kim says N. Korea in ‘final stages of test launching ICBM’

Seoul (AFP) – North Korea is in the “final stages” of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), leader Kim Jong-Un said Sunday.

“We are in the final stages of test-launching the intercontinental ballistic missile,” Kim said in a televised New Year’s speech, adding that Pyongyang had “soared as a nuclear power” in 2016.