Serious Kim Jong Nuke's 4 July present to US: ICBM launch

(CNN)US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson strongly condemned North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile launch, calling it "a new escalation of the threat to the United States, our allies and partners, the region, and the world" in a statement Tuesday.

"Global action is required to stop a global threat," he said. "Any country that hosts North Korean guest workers, provides any economic or military benefits, or fails to fully implement UN Security Council resolutions is aiding and abetting a dangerous regime."Tillerson also called for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and stated the US "will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea."

North Korea claimed Wednesday that it was just that. A statement from Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said Tuesday's test was of a new, nuclear-capable ICBM.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called it an Independence Day present to the US, adding "we should deliver big and small presents often," KCNA said.

Tillerson's strong statement marks a striking contrast to when North Korea conducted a test in April and Tillerson said: "North Korea launched yet another intermediate-range ballistic missile. The United States has spoken enough about North Korea. We have no further comment."

The Pentagon late Tuesday confirmed North Korea's test was an ICBM.

"The launch continues to demonstrate that North Korea poses a threat to the United States and our allies," a Pentagon statement said.

North Korea said the missile flew on a steep trajectory, going 2,800 kilometers (1,741 miles) above the Earth, before splashing down in sea off the Korean Peninsula 930 kilometers (578 miles) from its launch site.

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U.S. Confirms North Korea Fired Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
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By CHOE SANG-HUNJULY 4, 2017
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A photograph released by North Korea’s official news agency on Tuesday that is said to show the intercontinental ballistic missile being launched. Credit Korean Central News Agency

SEOUL, South Korea — The Trump administration on Tuesday confirmed North Korea’s claim that it had launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, and it told Pyongyang that the United States would use “the full range of capabilities at our disposal against the growing threat.”

The administration followed up that warning on Wednesday morning with a joint military exercise in which United States and South Korean forces fired ballistic missiles in the waters along the Korean Peninsula’s east coast.

But North Korea reaffirmed Wednesday that it would never deviate from its determination to bolster its nuclear and missile abilities as long as the United States’ “hostile policy” and “nuclear threat” persisted.

The North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency said its new intercontinental ballistic missile, the Hwasong-14, was capable of hitting the “heart of the United States” with “large heavy nuclear warheads.” The launch, according to the agency, successfully tested the functions of the missile’s two propulsive stages and the warhead’s ability to endure the intense heat and vibrations as it entered the earth’s atmosphere.
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On Wednesday morning, North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, taunted the United States, saying the launch was a Fourth of July “gift” to the Trump administration. The Korean Central News Agency said the country’s citizens were happy with the “great timing” of their leader’s decision to “hit the arrogant Americans in the nose” by conducting the first ICBM test to coincide with Independence Day.

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“The American bastards must be quite unhappy after closely watching our strategic decision,” the news agency quoted Mr. Kim as saying after watching the missile test on Tuesday. “I guess they are not too happy with the gift package we sent them for the occasion of their Independence Day. We should often send them gift packages so they won’t be too bored.”

Mr. Kim made those remarks “with a guffaw,” the news agency said.

The joint missile exercise by the United States and South Korea was first proposed by the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, and endorsed by President Trump, Mr. Moon’s office said.

Acting on an American request, the United Nations Security Council, which has repeatedly penalized North Korea over its violations of a ban on nuclear and missile testing, will meet in an emergency session on Wednesday afternoon.

The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, sharply criticized the North Korean launch. “This action is yet another brazen violation of Security Council resolutions and constitutes a dangerous escalation of the situation,” he said in a statement. Mr. Guterres called on North Korea to “cease further provocative actions and comply fully with its international obligations.”
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A photograph released by the North Korean news agency showing Kim Jong-un reacting after the launch. Credit KCNA, via Reuters

The North Korean 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. The American military said it remained aloft for 37 minutes.

While the North has made significant progress in its weapons programs, experts believe it cannot make nuclear warheads small enough to be mounted on ICBMs. Still, American policy makers have long seen just the development of an ICBM as a critical threshold the North should not be allowed to cross.

The missile test adds a volatile new element to the Trump administration’s efforts to curb North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, which have included naval drills off the Korean Peninsula and pressure on China, Pyongyang’s longtime ally. In a blunt phone call on Sunday, President Trump warned President Xi Jinping of China that the United States was prepared to act alone against North Korea.

If the missile took 37 minutes to fly 578 miles, that would mean that it had a highly lofted trajectory, probably reaching an altitude of more than 1,700 miles, said David Wright, co-director of the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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Such a missile would have a maximum range of roughly 4,160 miles, or 6,700 kilometers, on a standard trajectory, he said. North Korea said the missile flew for 39 minutes.

“That range would not be enough to reach the lower 48 states or the large islands of Hawaii, but would allow it to reach all of Alaska,” Mr. Wright wrote in a blog post.

But analysts also cautioned that although they had been impressed by the rapid and steady progress in the North’s missile programs, the long flight time itself did not suggest that North Korea had mastered the complex technologies needed to build a reliable nuclear-tipped ICBM, like the know-how to separate the nuclear warhead and guide it to its target.

By lofting some of its recent missiles to higher altitudes and letting them crash toward the earth at greater speeds, North Korea has claimed that it tested its “re-entry” technology, which can protect a nuclear warhead from intense heat and vibrations as it crashes through the atmosphere.

North Korea announced the latest missile launch in a broadcast on state television after a series of patriotic music videos. “As a proud nuclear power that possesses not only nuclear weapons but also the most powerful ICBM that can target any part of the world, North Korea will root out the United States’ threat and blackmail of nuclear war and solidly defend the peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula and the region,” its statement said.

North Korea called the test “a momentous event in the history of the country.”

Before the announcement, Mr. Trump had noted the missile launch on Twitter, suggesting that it was time for China to act decisively against the North and “end this nonsense once and for all.” On Tuesday, Chinese officials criticized the missile test, saying it violated United Nations rules.

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This photograph, released by the Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday, purports to show North Korean leader Kim Jong-un observing the launch of an ICBM. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images

This photograph, released by the Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday, purports to show North Korean leader Kim Jong-un observing the launch of an ICBM. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images



The North Korean regime claimed on Tuesday that it had conducted its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), and that the test had been a success. The missile was capable of reaching “anywhere in the world”, state TV reported.

Although Pyongyang’s claims have not been independently verified, officials in Seoul and Washington will be alarmed by the test, which offers more evidence that North Korea is moving closer to its eventual goal of possessing a nuclear-tipped missile that could strike the US mainland.

Such an eventuality would radically change the diplomatic dynamic and ratchet up pressure on the Trump administration to respond – remember that the US president has not ruled out a military response to serious provocations. It would also force the United Nations to rethink its approach to the hermit state.

Donald Trump is struggling to articulate a coherent policy towards North Korea

An ICBM is a missile launched by a land-based system that is intended to carry nuclear payloads. The most significant difference between an ICBM and other ballistic missiles is its greater range and speed – enabling countries to strike exceptionally distant targets with minimum warning.To qualify as an ICBM, a missile must have a minimum range of 5,500km (3,400 miles).
Successful launch

What are experts saying about the North Korean claims? Data released by North Korea on the missile’s range and height roughly concurs with reports compiled by Japan and South Korea, although the US military had earlier claimed that the test involved an intermediate-range missile.

There is general agreement that this was Pyongyang’s most successful missile test since its ballistic missile programme gathered pace in the late 1990s. Less convincing is the North’s claim that the missile can reach any target in the world.

John Schilling, a missile expert at the 38 North think tank in Washington, estimates it will take until at least 2020 for North Korea to be able to develop an ICBM capable of reaching the US mainland, and another 25 years before it will be able to build one powered by solid fuel.

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South Korean officials have said North Korea can mount a nuclear warhead on a medium-range missile capable of striking Japan and South Korea, including US military bases in those countries.

Much of the North Korean regime’s domestic legitimacy rests on portraying the country as under constant threat from the US and its regional allies, South Korea and Japan.

To support the claim that it is in Washington’s crosshairs, North Korea cites the tens of thousands of US troops lined up along the southern side of the demilitarised zone – the heavily fortified border dividing the Korean peninsula. Faced with what it says are US provocations, North Korea says it has as much right as any other state to develop a nuclear deterrent.

Six months in to his presidency, Donald Trump is struggling to articulate a coherent policy towards North Korea, except to say he has dispensed with the sanctions and isolation – known as strategic patience – pursued under Barack Obama.

Trump invested heavily in China’s ability to use its diplomatic and economic clout to persuade North Korea to abandon its missile and nuclear programmes, but that approach has so far failed to pay dividends.

He has also threatened to use force against the North in response to serious provocations, but has not specified what constitutes his “red line”, or what form military retaliation might take. Any indication that the US was to resort to force would alarm South Korea and Japan.
Dialogue

To complicate matters, at his weekend summit in Washington with the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, Trump agreed to leave the door open to dialogue with North Korea “under the right conditions”.

Can anything be done to rein in North Korea’s nuclear ambitions?At this point, the obvious response is no. A realistic answer to this question has evaded diplomats, nuclear experts and world leaders for years. Obama left the White House with the Korean peninsula in an even more perilous situation than when he arrived eight years earlier.

Beijing’s greatest fear is a crisis in North Korea that creates millions of refugees

A pre-emptive strike against North Korea’s nuclear facilities would almost certainly be met with immediate retaliation that could cause huge casualties in South Korea and possibly Japan.

The North’s demand that it enter into bilateral talks with the US, with a view to winning security guarantees from Washington, appears highly fanciful, given its missile tests and the rhetoric from the White House.

The realisation may also be dawning in the US that the faith it has placed in China’s ability to talk sense into Pyongyang was misplaced.

Beijing’s greatest fear is a crisis in North Korea that creates millions of refugees and ends with South Korean and US forces ranged across its border with North Korea.

As long as that remains the case, North Korea knows it can test Beijing’s patience and still emerge unscathed.

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After2 more there will b a special on 9 aug also, on my request

virus said:

After2 more there will b a special on 9 aug also, on my request

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Kim Jong Nuke not interested in Pee Sai.

Najib only used to hold hostage for death of VX Kim but Game Over already.

British Empire Mp Palmerston said the physical constitution of the Chinese need opium and we (angmoh fuckers ) are merely help supplies to their needs.

How is Trump going say explain to the Chinese of rhe opium trade in China where US are big drug traffickers.

Go get fuck off UArseA.

I feel hapoy when angmoh get angry NATO. Dare u try to go on war with NK.

USA is not the primary target of NK ICBM nukes. Japan, hated by all Koreans (North or South) will have the honour of the first nuke missile attack by Kim Jong In when it comes to pass.

This is interesting assumption. NK refugees fked to China are good for Chinese, the manufacturing king.

Chinese are practical people will quickly moved in their manufacturing plants near the refugee camps setup factories to hire cheap labour NK refugees to make goods for them.

Nothing goes to waste.

The more NK refugees the better and Iphone makers will also moved in to the refugees camps ro take advantage of the situation.

Knn. Angmoh where got fight w clever and dmart chinks. To the Chinks refugees means cheap labours is what they are looking for. Boom time for Chinese manufacturers.

...hahaha

Give and take 10 years a new Shenzhen electronic city is created and expect yr iphone pricea to drop dirt cheap thanks to new cheap labours from NK refugees.

Reddog said:

USA is not the primary target of NK ICBM nukes. Japan, hated by all Koreans (North or South) will have the honour of the first nuke missile attack by Kim Jong In when it comes to pass.

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By Definition, ICBM min range 5500km.

For NK to Japs and Kim Chi cousins, Kim Jong Nuke don't need ICBM, MRBM IRBM sufficient for Japs. For Kim Chi Cousins SRBM MRBM sufficient. Actually Kim Jong Nuke has thousands of long range heavy artillery guns and MLR rockets Fucking cheap to fry Samsung LG Hyundai etc to dust within just 4 to 5 Hrs completed. Can no longer find any viable targets.

ICBM is for USA only, Kim Jong Nuke not interested in whacking EU as well.