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Showing Original Post only (View all)N. Korea building missile launch pad capable of aiming at U.S.: report [View all]
By Alexander Smith, NBC News contributor
North Korea is improving one of its missile launch sites and may soon be able to fire rockets large enough to hit mainland United States, according to experts.
Recent satellite images appear to show that one of the country's launch stations has been modified to accommodate an intercontinental missile 25 percent larger than one it fired into space in Dec. 2012, according to a report by Johns Hopkins Universitys U.S.-Korea Institute (USKI) published Wednesday
The report added that the launch pad, which could be ready as early as March, would allow for "a more robust rocket test program in the future involving larger space launch vehicles and road-mobile ballistic missiles able to attack targets in Northeast Asia and the United States."
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper warned the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday that North Korea had gone through with its threat to continue its nuclear weapons program, posing a serious threat to the United States and to the security environment in East Asia.
North Korea is improving one of its missile launch sites and may soon be able to fire rockets large enough to hit mainland United States, according to experts.
Recent satellite images appear to show that one of the country's launch stations has been modified to accommodate an intercontinental missile 25 percent larger than one it fired into space in Dec. 2012, according to a report by Johns Hopkins Universitys U.S.-Korea Institute (USKI) published Wednesday
The report added that the launch pad, which could be ready as early as March, would allow for "a more robust rocket test program in the future involving larger space launch vehicles and road-mobile ballistic missiles able to attack targets in Northeast Asia and the United States."
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper warned the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday that North Korea had gone through with its threat to continue its nuclear weapons program, posing a serious threat to the United States and to the security environment in East Asia.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/30/22506777-n-korea-building-missile-launch-pad-capable-of-aiming-at-us-report?lite
Not overly worried about this right now, their missiles have a very poor track record, but in the future....
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sked14
Jan 2014
OP
I can imagine the news story after they tried launching a nuclear-tipped missile
jmowreader
Jan 2014
#6
There will be no unification until the North rejects off totalarianism. Period.
Ikonoklast
Jan 2014
#53
You're a re-tread, nothing new about you. The 'fuck capitalism' thing is just shtick.
Ikonoklast
Jan 2014
#57
Well, Iran is looking like a long shot now. N Korea is next on the list of "Axis of Evil." n/t
PowerToThePeople
Jan 2014
#41
Getting the windage right on an aim from 6000 miles away must be tough...
HereSince1628
Jan 2014
#62
Erect bogeyman (or, bogeymen), wave flag, more $$ for MIC, clamp down on dissent.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2014
#63