North Korea celebrated the successful launch of the new Hwasong-12 ballistic missile with hundreds of thousands of Pyongyang residents greeting the missile’s developers, Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), reported on Friday.

North Korea announced on Monday that the country had successfully test-fired a “ground-to-ground medium long-range strategic ballistic rocket” the previous day.

The ruling party organ reported on Wednesday and Thursday that North Koreans in various fields of farming, science, and technology has been “inspired” by the test-firing of Hwasong-12 under the same sub-headline that “The whole country boiled with the