<p class="title">North Koreans attending Pyongyang's ice sculpture festival have been treated to a chilling glimpse of the country's latest weaponry- an ICBM in frozen form.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The official 'Rodong Sinmun' newspaper ran a report on Wednesday showing smiling spectators dressed in thick winter coats posing in front of the replica on New Year's Eve, waving cameras and smartphones to grab a shot.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pyongyang says the weapon depicted in the sculpture, a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile, which it tested in November, is capable of hitting the US mainland.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The ice sculpture recalled the November incident which had caused tremendous excitement for tens of millions of soldiers and people," the paper said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un used his annual New Year address to warn he has a "nuclear button" on his table, but reached out to Seoul and appealed for warmer ties, in a move that could presage something of a thaw in relations between the two.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pyongyang said on Wednesday it would reopen a hotline with Seoul to discuss attending the Winter Olympics in the South.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kim's comments came after a year that saw multiple missile launches by the North and its sixth and most powerful nuclear test- purportedly of a hydrogen bomb.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Other sculptures on display at the Pyongyang Ice Sculpture Festival, which opened on Kim Il-Sung Square on Sunday, included North Korean landmarks, dolphins, a fishing boat and a tractor.</p>
<p class="title">North Koreans attending Pyongyang's ice sculpture festival have been treated to a chilling glimpse of the country's latest weaponry- an ICBM in frozen form.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The official 'Rodong Sinmun' newspaper ran a report on Wednesday showing smiling spectators dressed in thick winter coats posing in front of the replica on New Year's Eve, waving cameras and smartphones to grab a shot.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pyongyang says the weapon depicted in the sculpture, a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile, which it tested in November, is capable of hitting the US mainland.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The ice sculpture recalled the November incident which had caused tremendous excitement for tens of millions of soldiers and people," the paper said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un used his annual New Year address to warn he has a "nuclear button" on his table, but reached out to Seoul and appealed for warmer ties, in a move that could presage something of a thaw in relations between the two.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pyongyang said on Wednesday it would reopen a hotline with Seoul to discuss attending the Winter Olympics in the South.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kim's comments came after a year that saw multiple missile launches by the North and its sixth and most powerful nuclear test- purportedly of a hydrogen bomb.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Other sculptures on display at the Pyongyang Ice Sculpture Festival, which opened on Kim Il-Sung Square on Sunday, included North Korean landmarks, dolphins, a fishing boat and a tractor.</p>