One South Korean lawmaker named Kim Byung Kee said that North Korea is believed to be moving an intercontinental ballistic missile or ICBM in its lands.
In a report given by the lawmaker to CNN on Tuesday, September 5, the movement of North Korea was still unclear, including what direction the projectile was and how was it being transported as he was just briefed by South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Monday, September 4.
Weapons experts reportedly said that it will be impossible to verify if the missile and warhead could be successfully paired unless North Korea were to actually fire the ICBM.
Many are now watching North Korea's movement following its sixth nuclear weapon test on Sunday. According to seismological data and nuclear experts, the weapon was the most powerful of the missiles already tested by the country.
North Korea state media claimed that it detonated a hydrogen bomb or a thermonuclear weapon, which is capable of striking the United States.
It can be recalled that North Korea has test-fired few number of missiles this summer which included the two long-range ones in the month of July and an intermediate-range one in August, which had overflown in Hokkaido, Japan.
Lawmaker Kim Byung Kee also told the reporters during the briefing that the "NIS said North Korea may test-fire an ICBM towards the North Pacific at a lower angle" than use the tragectory of the two tests the country has done in July.
Meanwhile, South Korean Navy reportedly announced that they conducted live-fire drills off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula to check their immediate operational readiness.
"Wherever it is, whether on or under water, if North Korea provokes, we will immediately destroy and bury them at sea," the Navy said in a statement, as reported by CNN.
