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North Korean state media claims that it can hit anywhere in the world with its new missile. Others say that it is capable of reaching Alaska:
North Korea said on Tuesday it successfully test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) for the first time, which flew a trajectory that experts said could allow a weapon to hit the U.S. state of Alaska. The launch came days before leaders from the Group of 20 nations were due to discuss steps to rein in North Korea's weapons program, which it has pursued in defiance of U.N. Security Council sanctions.
The launch, which North Korea's state media said was ordered and supervised by leader Kim Jong Un, sent the rocket 933 km (580 miles) reaching an altitude of 2,802 km over a flight time of 39 minutes.
North Korea has said it wants to develop a missile mounted with a nuclear warhead capable of striking the U.S. mainland. To do that it would need an ICBM with a range of 8,000 km (4,800 miles) or more, a warhead small enough to be mounted on it and technology to ensure its stable re-entry into the atmosphere. Some analysts said the flight details on Tuesday suggested the new missile had a range of more than 8,000 km, underscoring major advances in its program. Other analysts said they believed its range was not so far.
(Score: 1) by tftp on Wednesday July 05 2017, @03:37AM (4 children)
NK will not have much trouble delivering a nuke into Seoul. They have lots of short range missiles. But who can say that they haven't already delivered one or two just by sea and trucks? The area is chock full of small fishing vessels; any of them can be overtaken by NK, driven to any of SK's ports and unloaded without too much attention.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 05 2017, @10:29AM
Oh I expect they can. We were talking artillery though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by EvilSS on Wednesday July 05 2017, @04:04PM
(Score: 1) by JNCF on Monday July 10 2017, @07:59PM (1 child)
Hey dude, this is super off-topic but I can't reply to this old post of yours [soylentnews.org] anymore. I just wanted to explain that while Bitcoin fees could theoretically be based on any criteria, in practice miners are demanding that fees scale with the size of the transaction in informational bits, not the monetary worth or number of Satoshis. The informational size of a transaction increases when you attach extra data (as with OP_RETURN, for example) or script things like multisig outputs, but as long as you're recording a simple transaction you can have a large amount of value sent for the same cost as a small amount of value. I think core defaults to 1000 Satoshis per kilobyte.
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Monday July 10 2017, @08:19PM
Oh, and another common reason for transactions getting larger is extra input or output addresses.