[Sabertooth]

Stinks to high heaven.

You're all correct in viewing this with a high level of skepticism, but see my #23 and #47. There are some other possibilities, in between a hoax and an undetected missile.

We need to verify or refute the existence of the purported fragment, and its provenance.

[Grampa Dave]

At the age of 64, I don't have enough time on earth wasting a single moment checking out anything that Reuters prints.

[TLBSHOW]

bttt

[Stefan Stackhouse]

During WWII, the Japanese send a few subs off the US west coast, attached some bombs to some baloons, and send them up. They pretty much all exploded in uninhabited areas, although a couple did start forest fires.

I wouldn't rule out the possibility of the NKs doing something similar, just to make us think their missile capabilities are better than they really are.