North Korea threatens U.S. missile

North Korea claims to have missiles that could hit U.S. soil, in a statement issued two days after South Korea announced the signing of a missile agreement with the United States.

The statement said that U.S. bases in Japan, Guam and on U.S. soil are within the reach of the rockets. The statement comes after Seoul announced Sunday that it will triple the capacity of its missile system.

Pyongyang is thought that it is working on a long-range rocket, but two recent tests missile ended in failure.

North Korea's neighbors said they failed tests in April for 2009 and April 2012, were related to the development of the Taepodong-2 missile.

The system in question, which analysts believe was intended to include within the reach of American soil, there was still a successful test.

North Korea consistently makes strong rhetoric against Seoul and Washington. But the communist state possesses short-range missiles and medium enterprises, as well as artiljeri directed towards South Korea.

The statement, issued by the state agency KCNA and attributed to the National Defense Commission, says further, "Pyongyang would respond to any enemy with nuclear weapons and nuclear missile launcher."