A video released by the Pentagon on Wednesday shows a ground-based interceptor being launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, shoot down a mock ICBM launched from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. 

Following the successful test to intercept a mock North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile(ICBM), the U.S. Defense Department has expressed confidence that it will be able to outpace North Korea’s ICBM threat by 2020.

Director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency(MDA), Vice Adm. Jim Syring, said in a media briefing on Wednesday that the U.S. will be able to deal with every ICBM threat through 2020 with its current ground-based midcourse defense system(GMD).
 
The Pentagon said earlier it will begin developing a new missile intercept system called multi-object kill vehicle(MOKV) this year. Capable of intercepting multiple incoming warheads at once, the MOKV is set to be fully developed by 2025.  
 

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