Posted on 11/28/2017 2:09:41 PM PST by Red Badger
NORTH Korea has launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), sparking a ferocious "precision strike" rocket response from South Korea.
North Korea launched the missile at around 3am local time (6pm GMT), sparking a furious response from Seoul.
Within minutes of North Korea's ICBM launch, South Korea had fired its own missile launch in retaliation.
The North Korean missile was fired eastwards from the hermit state. The missile landed about 210km west of Japan's Kyurokujima island, Tokyo said.
Japanese media reports the missile was in the air for 50 minutes - indicating a very high altitude flight path.
It travelled east for around 620 miles and to an altitude of 2,500 miles before crashing into the Sea of Japan.
US leader Donald Trump was briefed on the missile while it was still in the air.
This late-night launch is rare, with most taking place during daylight hours.
A South Korean military official said earlier this evening: “We confirm that we have detected a North Korean ballistic missile launch. The missile is still travelling towards the direction to the East Sea, as we are monitoring right now.
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Why would the South Koreans fire on the Norks? They must of thought that missile was headed their way...
earth’s rotation is in the other direction ...
Time for China to be advised that the US will no longer discourage Japan from developing a nuclear arsenal if they do not take care of Kim Jong Un within the next 2 months. The last thing China wants is a nuclear Japan.China hates Japan and a Japan with nukes will offset Chinese aggressive tendencies in the region as well as send a signal to North Korea and China that should another missile land off Japan’s shores Japan will have ultimate weapons to defend themselves and wreak havoc in the region
Many believe Japan already has nukes.......................
A minor detail.......................
I think theirs went after the NK missile.................
LOL!
Working with NNSA/OST, I can assure you that the DO NOT have nukes....(pssstt....but probably could go nuclear in <90days if they have to. SKorea...>180 days).
100 of the modern version of the Pershing II, inclusive of nukes, deployed by South Korea would end this in a month.
China would certainly fix it.
Now that was funny!
“Many believe Japan already has nukes....................”
If they don’t, they can put a few together in about thirty minutes.
WW-III began with Operation Masterdom
in Vietnam
on September 13, 1945
Japan could get an A-bomb ready to go in about a week. An H-Bomb might take a month or two. If we helped—days not weeks. Japan is a modern nation like Germany.
Time to nuke the NORKs. Git ‘er done.
that’s a good thing, otherwise it would have landed on RocketMan’s head
Why do I not see ANY references (other than the headline) to a South Korean missile being launched?
How will a fat, low IQ dictator and his skinny, starving army carry out WW III?
Are the Norks trying to take out our Hubble telescope in space?
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