Posted on 07/28/2017 6:30:31 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
More than half the continental US is within range of latest North Korean missile test, defense experts say
North Korea on Friday tested an intercontinental ballistic missile, which landed in the Sea of Japan.
Defense experts say New York City and Boston could now be in range of North Korea's missile.
"More of the continental U.S." is at risk, former CIA Korea branch chief Bruce Klingner said.
Michael Sheetz | Jeff Daniels
North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile Friday, which defense experts say could reach as far as New York or other U.S. East Coast cities.
The most recent test lofted the North Korean missile on a very high trajectory, bringing it down in the Sea of Japan. Preliminary data from the launch reveals that half, if not most, of the continental U.S. would be in range of the missile tested Friday.
"Looks like it pretty much can get to New York, Boston and probably falls just short of Washington," David Wright, co-director and senior scientist for the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, told CNBC.
The missile flew for 47 minutes, traveled a distance of 1,000 kilometers (about 620 miles) and reached an altitude as high as 3,700 kilometers (nearly 2,300 miles), South Korean military told Reuters.
Wright, a physicist and technical arms control specialist, said the launch appears to show North Korea can "go considerably farther" than previous efforts. He believes this missile on a standard trajectory would have a range of 10,400 kilometers (close to 6,500 miles) before accounting for the rotation of the Earth, which extends the range of missiles fired from west to east.
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Data from #NorthKorea News Agency on ICBM launch:
Apogee - 3,724.9 km
Distance - 998 km
Flight time - 47 minutes 12 seconds
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So if NK nukes san francisco, do the remaining san franciscans suddenly become conservative, or do they open the floodgates to allow as many north korean refugees in as can be physically transported here?
The crazy bastards have left us with no choice but a preemptive nuclear strike.
Nuclear Counterforce.
you swallowed the neocon fake news hook line and sinker
the Norks pose zero threat to Us.
The crazy bastards have left us with no choice but a preemptive nuclear strike.
Nuclear Counterforce.
oh good grief. the chi-coms aren't going to let their nork puppets risk total annihilation for no good reason. get a grip.
He may very well, be right.
NK is not a PR target. They are going nuclear. And they have a thing about America.
I do not believe there is ANYTHING bogus about North Korea.
Range is one thing. Accuracy? Remember Saddam Hussein had the 4th strongest military in the world. The sad thing is that we are going to have to let them shoot at us first. Take the missile down in mid-flight then it becomes a he said-she said.
Bullsh!t.
Any communist nation which can build nuclear bombs and has a nutcase for a leader is categorically greater than a "zero threat to "Us".
One doesn't have to embrace "neocon fake news" to understand the real threats which exist within objective reality.
How is any nuclear bomb possessed by an anti-American nation zero threat to Us? Please step outside whatever bubble you're in and attempt back up your cavalier assertion with some actual logic...
Floodgates.
Kim is a dead man walking.
Either we kill him or the Chinese will.
Not my half.
Bye-bye libs in CA, OR and WA.
Kim Jong Un? Would you like to play a game?
global thermonuclear war?
We Make Un a promise? We make you crispy critter fast.
How long would it take to nuke the NORKs back to prehistoric times and population density?
LOL
be afraid be very afraid
the sky is falling
falling I tell you
The NORKS pose no threats to us ...
Bound something similar to what was said about Germany some time ago.
For those who wonder why we don’t shoot them down, this is why. We have their capabilities. They don’t have ours. And we don’t want to show them ours until we need to.
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