North Korea tested its largest intercontinental-range ballistic missile (ICBM), the Hwasong-17, for the first time on Thursday, the largest liquid-propellant missile ever launched from a road-mobile missile launcher by any country.

With a stunningly high apogee of some 6,200 kilometers and an exhibited flight range of 1,080 kilometers, the ICBM would be capable of ranging the entirety of the continental U.S. from any launch point in North Korea, all the way down to the southern tip of Florida and beyond. The missile exhibited a flight time of 71 minutes.

But the missile’s primary significance is not