N. Korea says missiles can strike US mainland

Seoul: North Korea said on Tuesday it possessed "strategic rocket forces" capable of striking the US mainland, as it responded to a new US-South Korean deal to extend the range of the South's missile systems.

In a bulletin released on the official Korean Central New Agency (KCNA), the spokesman of the National Defense Commission said its "strategic rocket forces had placed not only the US forces in the Korean peninsula but also Japan, Guam and even the US mainland within its target range".