A North Korean missile reportedly crashed into one of its own cities after it failed just minutes following its launch.
US officials said the Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) was initially thought to have disintegrated mid-flight after it was fired on 28 April last year.
However, new data suggests it landed in the city of Tokchon, around 90 miles north of the secretive communist country’s capital, Pyongyang. Tokchon has a population of around 200,000.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Sunday January 07 2018, @01:31PM (2 children)
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-07-30/news/mn-18788_1_u-s-navy-missile [latimes.com]
The Sidewinder air-to-air missile, fired from an F-14 jet as part of Navy exercises, left a 2 1/2-foot hole in the superstructure of the Western Sun, which was cruising in the Atlantic 60 miles east of Norfolk, Lt. Cmdr. Bill Sonntag said in a statement.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by khallow on Sunday January 07 2018, @05:02PM (1 child)
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Monday January 08 2018, @05:28AM
You're missing the.... umm... bigger picture here.
Theretimes, a different country managed to hit a small US vessel.
30 years after, the NK needed a whole city as the target and a heck of a bigger rocket to do something of the same nature.
(large grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford