Update at 0730 KST: this article has been amended to reflect Mattis’s comments.

North Korea now has the ability to hit almost anywhere in the world with an intercontinental continental ballistic missile (ICBM), U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis said on Tuesday.

The comments came in response to what the U.S. Department of Defense has assessed to have been DPRK intercontinental continental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch earlier in the day.

Speaking at a press conference at the White House, Mattis said Tuesday’s launch went higher than any other previous test – a suggestion that the missile had the longest range yet of