North Korea Says It Has Successfully Tested an ICBM

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/04/world/asia/north-korea-missile-test-icbm.html

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said on Tuesday that it had successfully conducted its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, claiming a milestone in its efforts to build nuclear weapons capable of hitting the mainland United States.

The announcement came hours after a launch that the United States military said had sent the missile aloft for 37 minutes. That duration, analysts said, suggested a significant improvement in the range of the North’s missiles, and it might allow one to travel as far as 4,000 miles and hit Alaska.

In an initial statement, the United States Pacific Command described the weapon as an intermediate-range missile rather than an intercontinental ballistic missile. But South Korean and Japanese officials said they were studying the data to determine if it was an ICBM.

The missile departed the Banghyon airfield in the northwestern town of Kusong and flew 578 miles before landing in the sea between North Korea and Japan, the South Korean military said in a statement.

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They probably don't know how to make a nuclear device small enough to be carried on an ICBM. But you can be sure they're working on it!

[MineralMan]

1. Based on what I heard last night,

one of my neighbors apparently launched an ICBM from his driveway. The launch ended in a big BOOM! My dogs freaked.

I wish my neighbors and Kim Jong Un would stop messing around with fireworks on the 4th of July.

[Sneederbunk]

2. LOSER 45 took care of that with a tweet.

[RainCaster]

3. This is how we celebrate the 4th-

We buy Chinese fireworks from the Indians, and use them while drinking cheap beers. What Kim Jung Un is doing is no different.

[Johnny2X2X]

4. We are going to War

US officials say it was a two stage ICBM.

Here is where character counts, and Dim Don has poor character. Kim Jong Un has nuclear weapons and he has a way to deliver them to the US, it will take a broad coalition to depose him properly, Donald will screw this up royally because he will not build a coalition. He'll bomb N Korea and then N Korea will shell S Korea, innocents will die because Dim Don wants to look tough.

[Rustyeye77]

5. Yep...let's sit back and do NOTHING.

What's the worst that can happen?

A few nukes ? Pffffft.