Kim's nukes can hit Europe: Worst fears about North Korea PROVED by photo

Daily Star ^ | 17th December 2016 | Michael Havis

[Trod Upon]

You can always identify a British TABLOID article.

[JohnnyP]

Do they actually have a deliverable nuclear warhead?

[dfwgator]

This sounds ominous. Looking closely at the rockets I noticed in small print acme rocket company which is the same one that Wile E. Coyote uses.

[TigerLikesRooster]

They must have realized that N. Korea is a nice issue they can milk headlines out of. N. Korea provides ample materials. All they have to is to spice it up. Not hard to do when you have "good materials" to work with.:-)

In the process, it provides some interesting N. Korea related news articles which never get to be translated in English.

However, this article is not one of them.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Aiming at Europe (with a single flight) requires a west-bound launch - which is not as efficient as a eastbound (US west coast) or south-southeast bound (Hawaii golf course) shot. So they’d need a even longer-range missile to hit a city to their west.

However - IF they can get a satellite in orbit, then the game changes.

“All” they need then is a small enough nuke weapon to get into orbit, and ANYBODY can get hit. And, of course, anybody’s neighbors will get hit if the trajectory or timing is just a few micro-seconds off. That has been the fear ever since Sputnik went overhead in the 50’s. Sputnik, however, was launched by relatively sane country - which the NorK and their Iranian weapons are hardly close to sane.

[thoughtomator]

> Where do you think all those Syrian "chemical weapons" came from?

Ultimately, the exact same folks who conned us into tossing trillions of dollars and countless lives into the garbage to cover for their mistakes.

[The Great RJ]

Someone please paint a bullseye on the roof of Nancy Pelosi’s California home

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

What I meant was that the minimum energy required to deliver a payload to any point on the earth via a ballistic trajectory is always less than the minimum energy needed to place the same payload in orbit. Since North Korea and Europe are both pretty high in the Northern Hemisphere, the minimum energy to hit a point anywhere in Europe is considerably less than orbital energy. Get a globe and a string and measure the great circle route to points in Europe. (It will pass near the north pole.) Even Greece is closer to Korea than the east coast of the United States, and a lot less than 180 degrees of arc away.

[BipolarBob]

LOL! Pretty good.

[hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998]

If you can achieve orbit, you will stay in orbit, finally falling to Earth eventually..

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Reread my original comment of this clarification:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3505807/posts?page=28#28