The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea says it will bring the US mainland within the target range of its strategic rocket forces. The warning follows South Korea’s announcement that plans to extend the range of it missiles.

Nuclear for nuclear, missile for missile.

A spokesman for the National Defense Commission of the DPRK vowed to launch all-out efforts to match the US and South Korea.

According to the DPRK central television, the country is equipped with strategic rocket forces now able to place the US mainland territory, South Korea, Japan and Guam within its target range.

DPRK Central Television anchor said, "South Korea’s missile range will cover the whole of the DPRK territory. The DPRK army and people will do everything possible to strengthen the military response to the current situation. The DPRK army will take South Korea, the US bases in South Korea and even Japan, Guam, and the United States into its target range. The DPRK will no longer hide."

The announcement came after Seoul announced on Sunday that it will develop ballistic missiles with a tripled range of 800 kilometers under a revised pact with the US. The new range could cover the entire peninsula.

The DPRK spokesman accused the US of creating a strategic siege network in Asia and said the DPRK would show the real bitterness of a war that the world has never known or imagined.

South Korea said its missile plans were to counter threats from the DPRK.

Critics said South Korea’s extension plan runs counter to its commitment as a member of the global arms control agreement, known as the Missile Technology Control Regime, that aims at curtailing the spread of systems that could deliver weapons of mass destruction.