Posted on 11/30/2017 2:36:03 PM PST by blam
North Korea launched its most capable missile on Tuesday, displaying a range that could most likely reach the US mainland — but the country has already hinted at a more dangerous test.
In its state media, North Korea routinely swears to conduct missile tests and complete a missile program that can strike the US with nuclear weapons. But after US President Donald Trump threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea in a speech to the UN this summer, Pyongyang laid out another goal.
North Korea's foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho, said in September that the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, could respond with "the most powerful detonation of an H-bomb in the Pacific."
In October, CNN's Will Ripley quoted a senior North Korean official as saying the US should take the threat "literally," hinting it might follow the completion of an intercontinental ballistic missile — something North Korea declared on Wednesday.
North Korea's latest ICBM test drew condemnation from world leaders — the US's ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said it took the US and North Korea "closer to war" — but did virtually zero damage.
The missile launched, crested at 2,800 feet, and splashed down into the Sea of Japan.
If North Korea were to carry out its threat of detonating a nuclear device over the Pacific, it would affect millions of lives.
"If North Korea does do an atmospheric test, it really does change the game," Jenny Town, a managing editor at 38 North, a website for North Korea analysis, previously told Business Insider. "The amount of contamination it would cause both in the atmosphere and the ocean is something that will last for years."
North Korea essentially nuking the ocean would have far-reaching effects and draw international condemnation.
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Is this a mistake?
Yes.
yes, it’s off by a factor of 5,280, should be miles
“If North Korea were to carry out its threat of detonating a nuclear device over the Pacific, it would affect millions of lives.”
If NK does this, it will cease to exist. Personally, at this point, I would favor a drone attack of expanded special ops action directed specifically at the little fat a**h**e, with an immediate warning to the remaining military/government ‘leadership’ that they will be destroyed if they try to retaliate.
Yes, the pilot chatter would have been epic and unforgettable at 2800ft.
Article and # 5.
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2,800 feet X 5280....
A journalist is someone who knows a very little bit about a very wide number of topics, and if it’s ANYTHING remotely technical, he will blow it EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Freakin’ IDIOTS.
3,000 foot ICBM apogee — RIDICULOUS.
Most powerful h-bomb in Pacific history? I don’t think they’re quite to 15 megatons (operation castle).
More likely a factor of 10...i.e. 28,000 ft.
Nope.
Oh Trump is ready and willing, but I am sure that the rest of world will be clamoring to have Kim seated among the leaders of sovereign nations. Sarcasm? Maybe.
when will we take these fanatics at their word and shut them down (Iran and NK)
Trump and the world will do nothing but say words if North Korea detonates a bomb over the ocean. Guaranteed.
The US will have to take a direct hit before Trump does something.
Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бомба; "Tsar-bomb", or "King of bombs") was the Western nickname for the Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb (code name Ivan or Vanya), the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Its test on 30 October 1961 remains the most powerful man-made explosion in history. It was also referred to as Kuzkina mat (Russian: Кузькина мать; "Kuzma's mother"), possibly referring to First secretary Nikita Khrushchev's promise to show the United States a Kuzkina mat (an idiom roughly translating to "We'll show you!") at a 1960 session of United Nations General Assembly.
The bomb had a yield of 50 megaton TNT (210 PJ). In theory, it had a maximum yield of 100 megatons if it were to have included a U-238 tamper, but because only one bomb was built, this was never demonstrated. The single bomb was detonated at the Sukhoy Nos cape of Severny Island, part of Novaya Zemlya.
I’m thinking there is a decimal point missing and the missile was at 28 miles.
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