The US announced it had successfully tested an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile Wednesday, as hostilities with North Korea continue. The news came after several senior US officials warned Pyongyang that all options were on the table Tuesday, with one Republican senator claiming a military response was "inevitable."
The Air Force said the test was not a direct response to North Korea's recent missile test, but was designed to show "that the United States' nuclear enterprise is safe, secure, effective, and ready to be able to deter, detect, and defend against attacks on the United States and its allies."The ICBM test came after Sen. Lindsey Graham told NBC that president Donald Trump had told him to his face that "there is a military option to destroy North Korea's [missile] program and North Korea itself."
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