(CNN) North Korean state media is lauding what the country's leader Kim Jong Un has called a "package of gifts" for "American bastards" on their July 4 Independence Day holiday. State media said Kim supervised the launch of Pyongyang's first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Tuesday, which it says is powerful enough to reach the US mainland. The report said the missile was able to carry a "large-sized heavy nuclear warhead," and despite "extreme overload and vibration the nuclear warhead detonation control device successfully worked." Video from North Korean state media purports to show the launching of an intercontinental ballistic missile. The reason they're sharing this technical data (through state media) is to prove that they have it," she said.

Source: CNN July 05, 2017 08:32 UTC