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North Korea is at the mercy of Seoul after South Korea carried out a missile test that could potentially take out Kim Jong-un. Seoul stepped up its ability to fight back against North Korea during its first live fire drill for an advanced air-launched cruise missile today. And South Korea's potentially deadly missile is equipped with stealth characteristics that will allow it to avoid radar detection as it speeds towards its targets. Seoul's Defense Ministry chiefs said the missile, manufactured by Germany's Taurus Systems, has a maximum range of 500 kilometers (310 miles).

North Korea hosts a lavish banquet in honour of the country’s nuclear weapons developers Wed, September 13, 2017 A gala banquet celebrating last week’s hydrogen bomb test, which was so powerful it caused an earthquake Play slideshow REUTERS 1 of 10 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un claps during a celebration for nuclear scientists and engineers who contributed to a hydrogen bomb test, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)

Getty Kim Jong-Un is in the cross hairs of its neighbour who plan to strike out if it has too

The Taurus systems can bomb key nuclear sites in North Korea in just 15 minutes according to defence bosses. It puts Kim's life at risk with the tyrant known for visiting his regime's nuclear sites. The drill comes as tensions continue to escalate between North and South Korea over Kim's nuclear missile tests. South Korea has accelerated its efforts to ramp up military capabilities in the face of a torrent of nuclear weapons tests by North Korea. Kim's regime was widely condemned after it conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test to date on September 3.

Getty Kim Jong-Un inspected missiles before the North did its latest nuclear test

Shortly after the nuke test, Seoul announced it had reached an agreement with Washington to remove the warhead weight limits on South Korean ballistic missiles, which under a bilateral guideline could be built for a maximum range of 800 kilometers (497 miles). South Korea is also planning a “decapitation unit” that is specially trained to assassinate Kim Jong-un as tensions with North Korea reach breaking point. A pre-emptive strike against Pyongyang's leadership would be difficult to undertake, but it's widely seen as the most realistic of the limited military options Seoul has to deny a nuclear attack from its rival. The North said its latest nuclear test was a detonation of a thermonuclear weapon built for its developmental intercontinental ballistic missiles that were flight tested twice in July.

North Korea is also developing solid-fuel missiles that could be fired from land mobile launchers or submarines. It flew a powerful new midrange missile over northern Japan last month while declaring more missile tests targeting the Pacific Ocean. Meanwhile, South Korea said it found a small amount of radioactivity in air samples collected days after the North's test.

Ri Sol-ju, Kim Jong-un’s wife in pictures Wed, September 13, 2017 Kim Jong-un was reportedly married to Ri Sol-ju in 2012, but very little is know about her. She has taken long spells away from public appearances, reputedly due to pregnancy Play slideshow EPA 1 of 10 Kim Jong-un and his wife Ri Sol-ju watch a joint performance by the State Merited Chorus and the Moranbong Band to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea

Getty North Korea has angered the international community with its sixth nuclear test