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Alex Lockie at Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-tested-missile-8100-miles-hit-the-entire-us-2017-11
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North Korea tested a missile on Tuesday that experts say could reach any part of the US.
The missile flew about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) and landed in the sea east of Japan, but crested at a remarkable 4,500 kilometers (2,800 miles) above the Earth's surface, making it the highest and longest-lasting flight North Korea has completed to date.
North Korea previously tested intercontinental-ranged ballistic missiles, but those did not display ranges sufficient to hit important targets on the US's East Coast.
David Wright, a physicist and the codirector of the Union of Concerned Scientists' global security program, wrote in a recent blog post that North Korea's latest missile could likely fly 8,100 miles on a normal trajectory, enough to reach anywhere in the continental US.
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But that's just my take on it.
Botany
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Calculating
(2,957 posts)They cannot even feed their people and they keep making these rapid advances in rocketry? Give me a break, Putin is using nk as a proxy to screw with us.
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(24,122 posts)BadgerKid
(4,555 posts)Russia has trump over . or is this psyops?
Arkansas Granny
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(7,153 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)What action, if any, ought to be taken?