North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is “likely” to be able to deliver a 500 kg warhead to San Diego within two years, a US monitoring group said on Tuesday, July 11 after North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is “likely” to be able…
North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is “likely” to be able to deliver a 500 kg warhead to San Diego within two years, a US monitoring group said on Tuesday, July 11 after its launch sparked global alarm last week.
The isolated, nuclear-armed state’s first successful ICBM test was described by leader Kim Jong-un as a gift to “American bastards.”
The Hwasong-14 missile is currently estimated to have a range of 7,000-8,000 km – enough to reach Alaska or Hawaii – aerospace engineer John Schilling wrote on the well-respected 38 North website, a monitoring project linked to Johns Hopkins university.
“If the Hwasong-14 is put together the way we think it is, it can probably do a bit better than that when all the bugs are worked out, ” he wrote, projecting a range of 9,700 km with a 500 kg warhead on board.
