North Korea has hailed as a win its most recent trial of an intercontinental ballistic rocket (ICBM), portraying it as a "stern cautioning" for the US. 

North Korean pioneer Kim Jong-un said the test demonstrated that the whole US was inside striking reach, state media revealed. 

In any case, specialists say huge numbers of North Korea's rockets can't precisely hit targets. 

The dispatch came three weeks after North Korea's first ICBM test. 

The Pentagon said the most recent rocket was propelled at 23:41 (15:41 GMT) from an arms plant in Jagang region in the north of the nation. 

North Korea said the ICBM flew for a little more than 47 minutes and achieved an elevation of 3,724km (2,300 miles). 

It is irregular for North Korea to dispatch a rocket during the evening - the noteworthiness is up 'til now indistinct. This is the main rocket let go from Jagang area, demonstrating a formerly obscure dispatch site is operational. 

The test was denounced by the US and North Korea's neighbors. 

US President Donald Trump called it "just the most recent foolhardy and hazardous activity by the North Korean administration". 

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South Korea said it was concerned the North may have made "a critical progression in innovation", including that the rocket test was "one of a kind in its opportunity and place of dispatch". 

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the risk to his nation's security was "grave and genuine". 

China likewise censured the rocket test however asked "all gatherings worried" to practice limitation "and abstain from heightening pressures". 

South Korea-US joint rocket penetrate at an undisclosed area on South Korea's east drift after North Korean ICBM test. 

Picture subtitle The US and South Korea led a joint exercise utilizing surface-to-surface rockets because of the test 

Pyongyang said the dispatch had "effectively tried reentry capacities" of the rocket. 

Kim Jong-un "said gladly the test likewise affirmed all the US territory is inside our striking reach," the Korean Central News Agency said. 

The announcement said that the rocket was a Hwasong-14, a similar model North Korea tried on 3 July. 

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The North has over and over tried rockets in break of UN resolutions. 

ICBMs can achieve elevations well outside the world's air. Utilizing sharp directions with high heights enables North Korea to abstain from terminating over neighboring nations. 

In spite of the continuous tests, specialists trust the North does not yet have the ability to scale down an atomic warhead, fit it on to a long-go rocket, and guarantee it is ensured until conveyance to the objective. 

Others, be that as it may, trust that at the rate it is going, Pyongyang may conquer these difficulties and build up an atomic weapon inside five to 10 years that could strike the US. 

Dim line 

Examination: New York might be in extend 

Melissa Hanham, Senior Research Associate in the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies 

The intercontinental ballistic rocket Hwasong-14 is seen amid its test dispatch in this undated photograph discharged by North Korea"s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang, July, 4 2017. 

North Korea's most recent ICBM test went more remote and higher than its past 3 July test, implying that it might have the capacity to strike considerably more profound into the heartland of the United States than at first surveyed. 

Close to the dispatch, South Korean, Japanese and US authorities announced information about the area, range, apogee, and flight time of the rocket. While full examination has not been finished yet, a few focuses emerge. 

Initially, the information accessible demonstrates that the rocket may have a scope of around 10,400km. Since this rocket is street versatile, a dispatch from the north-eastern city of Rason would put New York City in scope of the ICBM